re: F cancer, F insurance companies, and F big pharma!!!

I would look into ketosis and fasting.

Sure it is not looked upon very favorably yet, but more and more studies are slowly but surely starting to try ketosis in treatments.

Nevertheless, there are other options. The Raw Milk diet is one that used to be used in sanitariums in days past for all sorts of illnesses. There is another cancer treatment that has been outlawed in the US so they have centers in Mexico for it, but I forgot what it was called.

Just a quick example of Raw Milks potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20053771

A complex of human alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid (HAMLET) was originally isolated from human milk as a potent anticancer agent. It kills a wide range of transformed cells of various origins while leaving nontransformed healthy cells largely unaffected both in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, purified alpha-lactalbumins from other mammals form complexes with oleic acid that show biological activities similar to that of HAMLET. The mechanism by which these protein-lipid complexes kill tumor cells is, however, largely unknown. Here, we show that complex of bovine alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid (BAMLET), the bovine counterpart of HAMLET, kills tumor cells via a mechanism involving lysosomal membrane permeabilization. BAMLET shows potent cytotoxic activity against eight cancer cell lines tested, whereas nontransformed NIH-3T3 murine embryonic fibroblasts are relatively resistant. BAMLET accumulates rapidly and specifically in the endolysosomal compartment of tumor cells and induces an early leakage of lysosomal cathepsins into the cytosol followed by the activation of the proapoptotic protein Bax. Ectopic expression of three proteins known to stabilize the lysosomal compartment, i.e. heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), Hsp70-2, and lens epithelium-derived growth factor, confer significant protection against BAMLET-induced cell death, whereas the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2, caspase inhibition, and autophagy inhibition fail to do so. These data indicate that BAMLET triggers lysosomal cell death pathway in cancer cells, thereby clarifying the ability of alpha-lactalbumin:oleate complexes to kill highly apoptosis-resistant tumor cells.

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Pharmaceutical companies will charge what the market will bear for a drug.

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There is no market. The third and fourth parties between the consumer and provider destroy natural market forces.

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False. The reason why we pay so much is a lack of govt intervention.

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ok there, Skippy. Government has been all up in that shite for decades.

When you go to a restaurant with a deep pocketed friend who says "I've got the tab," and there are no prices on the menu, what happens to the bill? Is it more or less than when you order alone?

We can look at absolutely every area of the economy that the government steps in to and see the exact same thing. College tuition is just one example. Explain to me how government intervention has not sent tuition skyrocketing.

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How do they have your brain so twisted on this issue that you believe the opposite of reality?

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I'm not the one who has my brain twisted by someone else. You have been "taught" that government is the answer.

How you got downvoted so much for that statement is beyond me.

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This drug costs $15,000 a month

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That's insane...

That really sucks baw. Blame the FDA. Call the local News and have them do a story on how horrible the health coverage is. If it makes Fon News or CNN, the insurance company will cover it so they don't take a huge blow to their corporate brand.

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antithetical to Christian teaching.

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We live in a Capitalist system. Capitalism is antithetical to Christian teaching.

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We have the WORST healthcare system in the world when you look the cost and accessibility for average people.

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For the expensive cancer treatments the US is actually a pretty good place to be. For literally everything else you’re worse off than in almost every other first world country and you pay more. There are a number of reasons though, but basically across the board for drugs, insurance and treatment we pay more in the US than anywhere else.

Insurance, medical supplies / scans, and pharma in the US, are all scams. It's laughable. I was charged $4000 for a fricking CT scan for a kidney stone. They will continue to steal our money as long as politicians enable them to.