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Health & Fitness

Aftershock Result

Discussing things to come about U.S. finances and curbing health care costs -- from someone who has been there.

During many campaigns for public office, my basic assumptions have never changed, and since the 1990s I have warned of things to come. A word today is Aftershock.

The noted economist Robert Wiedemer has written recently:  "Imagine 50 percent unemployment, a 90 percent decline in the stock market, a real collapse in the real estate market, all beginning with the handling of the debt crisis."

We hear that the debt is not only the $14-plus trillion, but with unfunded liabilities, it is nearer to $200 trillion, about double of what I have been estimating, at just $100 trillion. 

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That is why I earlier wrote to try to impress on Patch readers what a trillion looks like.  Just think now about 200 times that. Health care is now a trillion dollar enterprise. So we will have to start on that.

Did you know that a large part of this cost is in controlling pain? 

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I have been exposed to alternative treatment which included the study of the Auriculotherapy system. This amazing science is based on the Chinese development of Acupuncture to balance the Qi (pronounced CHEE) which refers to the energy of life force, so effective that Chinese doctors perform surgery with no anesthesia because the patient feels no pain.

From acupuncture, acupressure was developed, which stimulates the same points only without needles at no costs to the user. So, what if you could get your hands on the secret that can unlock the body's own pharmacy to relieve pain, reduce high blood pressure, quit smoking or alcohol, revive sex drive and perhaps treat hundreds of other health problems or diseases?

All this by doing nothing more than touching your ear.  Remember, you heard this here, first.

Another plan I have studied because one of my treatments require checking the oxygen reading of my fingers. When you realize that the body is composed of from 60 percent to 70 percent water, and water is about 60 percent oxygen, medics like to know your oxygen content. Therefore oxygen must be important in the treatment.

This new approach involves a very low cost use internally of one of the mainstay of low cost treatment of cuts and bruises I grew up with in the bad old days. 

It must be coming back as when I entered the other day, the first thing I saw was a huge display of hydrogen peroxide. So this alternative treatment involves the product 35 percent Food Grade peroxide. This treatment will cost just about 1 and 1/2 cents per day, so I felt it was worth a try. Anyone who wants more information, I would be happy to supply what I have. Just let me know by e-mail.

So, changes are coming, debt ceiling or not. You had better be prepared.

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