Your doctor my be dancing a joyful jig after reading on  the Center for Disease Control Web site  that the diabetes disease incident rate has increased following a recent report.

"Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, an increase of more than 3 million in approximately two years, according to new 2007 prevalence data estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This means that nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes" 

And that is a good thing for the U.S. medical system which seeks to build bigger and better medical facilities. The more sick people, the more the profits and the richer the U.S. doctors can get.

"I can see them now dancing and partying with their lovers and friends as they tip the bottles of champagne and people can hear glug, glug and glug as they down the booze by the quart full," according to this author.

The profits have even gotten better in recent years. According to data from the Center for Disease Control, people treating diabetes with pills has doubled from 1997 to 2007, which means big profits from the drug companies. However, insulin works much better and cheaper, but that is not a good thing for the medical clinics. If diabetics treated their disease as aggressively as this author, doctors might go broke. He injects himself every two hours with lispro insulin and no doctor is going to tell him anything but --OK-- you need to check your blood sugar and inject insulin --OH-- that will be $100. In fact as long as my wallet is full, he would be glad to see me and as often as possible. Despite the disease represents insulin deficiencies, why not just alter the human body's natural function with drugs? After all, medical researchers are smarter than God.

Yes the doctors act and think much more efficiently than God bringing in big profits. As we look at the information from the Center for Disease Control, we can see clearly why the crooked medical system of the United States can reap huge profits from the sick patients. They see you down, so they give you one last kick to make sure your stay sick by giving you pills instead of insulin. Now this review some more information on the Center for Disease Control's Web site.

"Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death listed on U.S. death certificates in 2006....According to death certificate reports, diabetes contributed to a total of 233,619 deaths in 2005, the latest year for which data on contributing causes of death are available. Overall, the risk for death among people with diabetes is about twice that of people without diabetes of similar age.

Heart disease and stroke

1. In 2004, heart disease was noted on 68 percent of diabetes-related death certificates among people aged 65 years or older.

2. In 2004, stroke was noted on 16 percent of diabetes-related death certificates among people aged 65 years or older.

3. Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates about two to four  times higher than adults without diabetes.

4. The risk for stroke is two to four times higher among people with diabetes.

Amputations

1. Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations.

2. More than 60 percent of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.

3. In 2004, about 71,000 nontraumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.

• Diabetes, according to death certificate reports, contributed to a total of 233,619 deaths in 2005, the latest year for which data on contributing causes of death are available.

• Diabetes is likely to be underreported as a cause of death. Studies have found that only about 35 to 40 percent of decedents with diabetes had it listed anywhere on the death certificate and only about 10 to 15 percent had it listed as the underlying cause.

• Overall, the risk for death among people with diabetes is about twice that of people without diabetes of similar age.

In 2004, heart disease was noted on 68 percent of diabetes-related death certificates among people aged 65 years or older.

• Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, accounting for 44 percent of new cases in 2005.

• In 2005, 46,739 people with diabetes began treatment for end-stage kidney disease in the United States and Puerto Rico.

• In 2005, a total of 178,689 people with end-stage kidney lived   on chronic dialysis. Yet, studies indicate insulin treatment can reverse the enlarged kidneys and filtering tubes, saving the kidneys. However, doctors fail diabetics.

• The public option is not your eneimy but it is your friend," President Obama to the AMA. It is imopr

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In the article, Medical marketing 101 -- how to get more patients and increase profits, tell the real story about medicine. Author Alex White clearly spells out that medicine is about profits and business.

"Perhaps you became a doctor because you love to help people or because you have a passion for medicine.  No matter what brought you to become a doctor, you have to face the fact that patients equal profits," according to the article. "

Many doctors mistakenly believe that if you are busy as a doctor, it is because you are a good at what you do.  That may be the case sometimes but the majority of doctors who maintain busy schedules also have an effective marketing plan.  There is a stigma attached to medical marketing but if you want to stay busy and avoid the dreaded famines that follow feasts, you need to get more patients through marketing your practice."

To the right, the data from The Center for Disease Control spells out how the disease increased from 5.6 million in 1980 to 16.8 million in 2006. Of course, the recent data indicates that number has now increased to 24 million.

According to some experts, some prescription drugs may actually cause diabetes.

"Some prescription drugs are so dangerous that even health related industry groups feel compelled to speak out against the drugs in order to protect the health of patients. In this case, a joint report by the American Diabetes Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the North American Association for the study of Obesity complained that an entire class of antipsychotic drugs increases the risk of diabetes. Or, but briefly, take the drugs for your head, and lose your pancreas," according to the article Antipsycotic drugs may cause diabetes, but the FDA still allows their sale. "A manufacturer of one of these drugs said basically this isn't news: these side effects are well known in the medical community, they explain."

Then as the review takes a deeper look at the people over 65 becoming diabetic, the profit motive by doctors gets questioned even more.

"Patients taking beta-blockers for their blood pressure have a 50 per cent higher risk of developing diabetes compared to being on newer drugs, researchers have revealed," according to the article Beta-blockers 'increase diabetes risk by 50 percent. In this article by Jenny Hope concluded that "atients taking beta-blockers and diuretics - standard medication for over 30 years - are at far greater risk of becoming diabetic."

What and you thought your doctor lived so holy he might have even been God. Nope. In fact, he or she is likely to give you a drug, which will increase profits. After all, the holiest step anyone could do in the United States is to get rich, and the richer a person is in the United States the more respect and honor they receive. The public is not a bit concerned about making people sick just to earn profits.

"According to a University of Chicago Hospitals survey, conducted by Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S., "The annual economic burden of diabetes is estimated at $132 billion and increasing. In 2002, more than one-tenth of U.S. health care expenditures were attributable to diabetes." Drug producing companies are having some of the best days of their existence, with doctors prescribing more medications to more patients each day," according to the article Diabetes causes a rise in company profits. "Indeed, the study shows that, since 1997, physicians have begun prescribing more and more drugs to each patient coming into their practice. The national average went up from 1.14 to 1.63 drugs per person. Also, the number of patients who only received one drug has decreased by half, from 82 percent to 47 percent, meaning that the number of those who buy prescription pills increased both from new patients, as well as by half of the old ones."

Of course, some think this profit motive by the medical profession is nothing but legalized crime. This author has been doubled billed by doctors multiple times and at least one patient on dialysis has reported the double billing and one breast cancer patient has reported the same, which might be an indication of legalized crime on the part of doctors.

"I have become totally and utterly convinced that most doctors are just crooks.  These people are supposed to be helping you and really?  What they're thinking about?  IS MONEY," according to a post on a Web site Doctors, They are crooks. "It's all about getting as many patients in and out and billed as possible.  And that is really sad.  It must be difficult to pay attention to patients and help them when all you're trying to do is bill as much as you possibly can and get to the high-margin stuff."

In 1961 when the nation’s lawmakers evaluated and accepted the Medicare program many legislatures did not want to antagonize the American Medical Association “by implying that physicians were other than scrupulously honest and perfectly capable of keeping their business dealings within the confines of what the law allowed,” according the Google book Prescription for profit: how doctors defraud Medicaid, written by Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis. From the citation in this book, one might conclude that our nation’s lawmakers regarded doctors even then as some sort of God that acted to honorable to break laws. “To have challenged this shibboleth, Congress would have risked escalating an already tense conflict into all-out warfare. Physicians tend to see themselves as a cut above others and as members of a profession that vigorously punishes its wrongdoers. Evidence to the contrary existed, but Congress chose to simply ignore it. In 1961 for instance, the General Accounting Office accused physicians who were providing medical care to dependents of armed services personnel of overcharging the federal government $3 to $4 million annually.”

Because the medical profession threatened to boycott the Medicaid program, Congress allowed itself to be set up for potential fraud. Many doctors held ownership in hospitals and even today have offices at hospitals where they participate in the current medical system. Of the point here, the public then and now thought of the doctors as almost God-like. So in the 1960s, “Congress accepted the medical profession’s portraint of itself as above such grubby tactics as over utilization of hospitals. Doctors, everyone concurred, responded to a higher ethic, and there was no conflict among patient, physician and government interests.’

“Essentially, fraud did take place and costs skyrocketed rapidly, making government authorities uneasy. In fact, these authors noted that the price tag of Medicare provide to be over $1 billion more than expected. As a consequence, poor patients under Medicare now had access to medical services. In one case, pharmacists over billed $20,000 and because of his stupidity, charging more for one prescription than all the prescriptions for that drug in the entire state of California, he received a prison sentence. More fraud took place, making Medicare unmanageable in the state of New York. The whole problem began because essentially Congress and the public trusted doctors to be ethical and moral individuals who would do and could do no wrong. Finally, Congress finally figure it out that maybe the medical profession should not be fully trusted.

Jesilow and co-authors stated: “The following year the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977 were passed in response to congressional review of abuses….Senator Herman Talmadge, who introduced the bill, said it provided ‘an opportunity to send a clear, loud signal to the thieves and the crooks and abusers that we mean to call a hart to the exploitation of the public and the public purse.’ The amendments also sought to clamp down on kickbacks to doctors by expanding the definition of wrongdoing to include any remuneration that sought to induce the referral of Medicaid or Medicare patients.”

From the above citations, one can see a parallel to today’s efforts to intermingle with drug representatives known as detailers in the doctors’ offices. While no valid proof exists that doctors earn side pay, still how can one dispute that an influence does not exist. While reading a book on diabetes today, this author read how a doctor stated in the book that type 2 diabetics have insulin resistance, rather than too little insulin. However, most doctors even make a test to see if – for one—if the patient even makes any insulin, and second can they really determine if a person makes enough insulin for the calories in which the patient consumes? Further, from the above citations, one might begin to question more and more doctors if their prescribing patterns, their requests to have diabetics come back every three months represents a self-interest in the doctors’ side of this equation. Interestingly enough, Jesilow and his coauthors interestingly enough concluded that the official concerns “about frand and abuse perpetrated by physicians and other providers … correlates directly with rapidly escalating government expenditures for heath care. There continues to be  a heated debate about precisely who or what is to blame for the strikeing increase in the price of health care in America. Doctors’ incomes have outpaced inflation by such a great margin that it is extremely difficult to argue they have not seized the opportunity to promote their fiscal self-interest they can….Medicaid’s price tag -- $1.9 billion in its first year – now stands at $61 billion and is rising rapidly.”

These authors concluded that abuse and cheating have not escalated to the level in which the public feels any need for action. Now as the nation looks toward a National Health Care Plan, abuse, cheating and fraud has the potential to rise even higher. Consequently, to say doctors represent a bunch of crooks might be a very accurate statement. The only method of change means that the public must become more responsible, question doctors more and do not allow the doctors to trip up patients with an attitude of concern, when the real concern seems to be more about earning more money.