Warren Buffett is donating $30 billion to a foundation run by Bill and Melinda Gates. It’s heartening to see the world’s two richest people joining forces to remedy some major world ills.
Much of the funding will be spent on health and education programs. Bill Gates is quoted in USA Today as saying, “There’s no reason we can’t cure the world’s 20 deadliest illnesses.”
I pray that Gates and Buffett understand it takes more than money and drugs to solve world health problems.
The US already has the highest spending per capita for healthcare and much sicker citizens then countries that spend far less per person. Billions of dollars have been spent on disease research over the last century, yet people face more severe and aggressive diseases than ever. One disease is conquered, and a worse one appears in its place. The evidence is unmistakable. It takes more than dollars and chemicals to stamp out disease.
Gates and Buffett are smart business leaders. I’m sure they have a plan in mind yet to be fully revealed. But whatever it is, to bear results that endure, their efforts needs to include an element of spirituality.
A drug may produce a short term effect, but for long term renewal people need improved values, increased morality and even spirituality. People act out and experience life according to the thoughts that govern their lives. The better their thoughts, the better their experience is, including their health.
The world’s 20 deadliest diseases are not going to be cured through monetary spending alone. Health is a state of Mind, the divine Mind expressed through us. The more we learn about this Mind-health relationship, the faster we’ll conquer disease and stay healthy.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
American healthcare failing
Americans are sicker than the British despite twice the spending on healthcare in the USA as in Britain, a newly published study claims.
“Why isn’t the richest country in the world the healthiest country in the world?” study co-author Dr. Marmot asks.
Doctors and researchers are scrambling to account for the dramatic differences. “It’s a mystery,” some conclude.
No one has yet mentioned the most obvious explanation of all. And that is, increased spending on healthcare does not increase the overall health of our population. Conventional medical practices, which absorb by far the largest share of our healthcare expenditures, are not working.
Why the healthcare system in the US is failing is not a mystery. The US model is based on a premise that largely fails to account for the spiritual individuality of a patient.
People are not mindless robots. They are not mere chemicals and electrical charges. They are spiritual beings with a consciousness that governs their state of health. To improve the body, the mind governing the body needs to be improved. This is done through love, comfort, and understanding, medicine that does not come from a bottle, but from an understanding of God’s tender care for each of us.
Filling thought with truth and love will succeed where pumping bodies full of drugs fails.
It’s time to re-define healthcare from taking more drugs to spiritualizing consciousness. It doesn’t cost near as much to fund and the effect is far better.
“Why isn’t the richest country in the world the healthiest country in the world?” study co-author Dr. Marmot asks.
Doctors and researchers are scrambling to account for the dramatic differences. “It’s a mystery,” some conclude.
No one has yet mentioned the most obvious explanation of all. And that is, increased spending on healthcare does not increase the overall health of our population. Conventional medical practices, which absorb by far the largest share of our healthcare expenditures, are not working.
Why the healthcare system in the US is failing is not a mystery. The US model is based on a premise that largely fails to account for the spiritual individuality of a patient.
People are not mindless robots. They are not mere chemicals and electrical charges. They are spiritual beings with a consciousness that governs their state of health. To improve the body, the mind governing the body needs to be improved. This is done through love, comfort, and understanding, medicine that does not come from a bottle, but from an understanding of God’s tender care for each of us.
Filling thought with truth and love will succeed where pumping bodies full of drugs fails.
It’s time to re-define healthcare from taking more drugs to spiritualizing consciousness. It doesn’t cost near as much to fund and the effect is far better.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Pill pushers
Have you noticed how aggressively pharmaceutical companies have been pushing their pills?
Forbes magazine claims Big Pharma’s focus is more market-driven than ever. Billions are spent on ad campaigns aimed at convincing consumers they need more medicine. Drug firms have hired nearly 100,000 salespeople to call on physicians to sell their product. A drug is advocated for every ill, it seems, and not just for traditional physical ailments, but also for lifestyle issues.
For the consumer striving to live a happy healthy life, it’s essential to defend one’s thought from the aggressive campaigns of drug companies. Many ads are designed to impress a viewer’s mind with graphic images of disease, and create fear in their thought. The unsuspecting ad-reader may wonder if they have a disease they never would have dreamed having if it weren’t for the ad.
Mary Baker Eddy understood the deleterious effects of advertising disease. She wrote, “The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family. It does this by giving names to diseases and by printing long descriptions which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What a price for human knowledge!”
One way to protect ourselves is to not watch or read medical ads in the first place. This is easier to say than do at times! Leafing through Parade magazine or watching the evening news requires constant diligence to pass over and tune out the undesirable content. But no one else will do it for us. We need to take the initiative and keep our mental house free of descriptions of disease if we wish to keep the diseases out of our experience.
Focus on health, and not on disease, makes it easier to maintain a health-consciousness. Health is a spiritual gift from God, and we find more of it through using our spiritual senses,--tuning into Truth and filling thought with spiritual images of love and harmony.
So, when the next ad toting disease and pills hits your mental airwaves, block it out. Tune into Truth and know you are well under God’s constant care.
Spiritual mindedness is the best medicine around. It’s a prescription that keeps us healthy and also spares our savings.
Forbes magazine claims Big Pharma’s focus is more market-driven than ever. Billions are spent on ad campaigns aimed at convincing consumers they need more medicine. Drug firms have hired nearly 100,000 salespeople to call on physicians to sell their product. A drug is advocated for every ill, it seems, and not just for traditional physical ailments, but also for lifestyle issues.
For the consumer striving to live a happy healthy life, it’s essential to defend one’s thought from the aggressive campaigns of drug companies. Many ads are designed to impress a viewer’s mind with graphic images of disease, and create fear in their thought. The unsuspecting ad-reader may wonder if they have a disease they never would have dreamed having if it weren’t for the ad.
Mary Baker Eddy understood the deleterious effects of advertising disease. She wrote, “The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family. It does this by giving names to diseases and by printing long descriptions which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What a price for human knowledge!”
One way to protect ourselves is to not watch or read medical ads in the first place. This is easier to say than do at times! Leafing through Parade magazine or watching the evening news requires constant diligence to pass over and tune out the undesirable content. But no one else will do it for us. We need to take the initiative and keep our mental house free of descriptions of disease if we wish to keep the diseases out of our experience.
Focus on health, and not on disease, makes it easier to maintain a health-consciousness. Health is a spiritual gift from God, and we find more of it through using our spiritual senses,--tuning into Truth and filling thought with spiritual images of love and harmony.
So, when the next ad toting disease and pills hits your mental airwaves, block it out. Tune into Truth and know you are well under God’s constant care.
Spiritual mindedness is the best medicine around. It’s a prescription that keeps us healthy and also spares our savings.
