Homeopathy's Alternative
to Disease and Death
in the Capitalist "Health Care" System
Some Comments on Health and the Political Economy
of Medicine
It's remarkable how few socially and politically conscious people are
aware of their own healthy well-being and of the alternatives that are
available to our profit-driven dominant capitalist medicine.
Despite an awareness of what's going on in the world and how it really
works, most of us have neglected to really understand our own health and
have, instead, accepted the dictates of the "church" of capitalist
medicine that is fostered by the AMA and FDA.
These organizations are functionally little more than extensions of the
transnational medical-industrial complex, one of the most powerful industries
in today's "globalized" world. The bottom line with these institutions
-- always the most fundamental concern -- is that if there is no profit
in a medical practice or product it is not pursued. And if there is a profit
to be made, it must be increased, by whatever means one can get away with.
This is "health care" for profit. This basis of "conventional" (ie.capitalist)
medicine is, by definition, unconscionable: it has only to do with accounting.
It is a poison in the heart of medicine that has far-reaching consequences.
The profit motive in medicine fundamentally distorts all health care,
determining everything from the kind of research that is done to the recommended
treatments to the amount of time spent with a patient. It is fundamentally
at odds with the classically expressed concerns of the Hippocratic Oath,
the concern to bring maximum health with the least suffering to every patient.
You can find a number of articles in our links
that discuss the problems that the profit motive has introduced into today's
"health care" business.
There is an essentially progressive and non-capitalist alternative form
of medicine that can yield effective and deep healing. It is the brilliant
and healthy science of Homeopathy. The science and practice of true Classical
Homeopathy treats each person as a complex and many-faceted individual
and takes their case as such, unlike the production-line approach of conventional
medicine and most of the "new-age" treatments. Homeopathy does not treat
people as diseases, or disease as separate from the whole person. And there
is little room for the profit motive to run the show because homeopathic
remedies cost pennies per dose. Furthermore, the correct practice of true
classical homeopathy requires a lot of time interviewing each patient to
discover them in their every aspect, much more time than can be profitably
spent if profit is the basic concern. This is one reason why it can be
very difficult to find a true classical homeopath: it's very hard to make
a living from it. It is fundamentally "out of sync" with today's profit-making
social basis.
I am offering the information on this page for those who are struggling
against the system's most egregious outrages and for those who are fighting
to found a more humane and just foundation for society. You
should be aware of, and have access to, alternatives to the bosses' medical
machine.
The profit system definitely knows how to defend itself, and it frequently
results in physical and mental injuries to those who dare to defy it. The
pages in this section of my site, hopefully, will be useful in finding
effective, cheap, and healthy alternatives to frequently harmful, dangerous,
expensive, or unavailable forms of medicine that the capitalist system
has served up.
Be well, and carry on the struggle!
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