"The Obama-Biden plan will promote public health. It will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters...(...) Use health information technology to lower the cost of health care. Invest $10 billion a year over the next five years to move the U.S. health care system to broad adoption of standards-based electronic health information systems, including electronic health records (...) Promote international efforts to develop new diagnostics, vaccines, and medicines that will be available and affordable in all parts of the world. " (The President's Agenda).
THE PROBLEM
In the United States, all of the fifty States are plagued by rising costs and declining insurance coverage, misguided in its treatment plans which tends to maintain and-or cause more sickness rather than health.
“For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85…. In 2002, the most recent year for which information is available, 476,009 Americans under 85 died of cancer compared with 450,637 who died of heart disease” (American Cancer Society’s annual report released in January 2005)
With the permission of my superiors, one of my first focus as U.S. Ambassador to France would be on that which is the most precious of all of our internationally recognized human rights, without which our other constitutional rights are meaningless : our right to be healthy and in a state of well-being, as provides the U.N.'s World Health Organization's Constitution.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (The World Health Organization’s Constitution).
This norm is central to any national and Franco-American relational revival. And can not be achieved until Governments embrace the toxicity and detoxification challenge. And in the U.S. toxins and pollutants are increasing at an alarming rate.
"Chemicals such as lindane, lead compounds, and some brominated flame retardants and organophosphate pesticides are examples of persistent, bio-accumulative, and/or highly toxic chemicals that continue to be used in commerce, although strong evidence exists that they pose threats to human and ecosystem health. (...) With few exceptions, the U.S. government lacks the authority or an efficient policy instrument to prevent these high-priority chemicals from being used in products and processes or released to the environment. It also has been very difficult for state and local governments to restrict these chemicals. Policy instruments to efficiently and effectively phase out problematic chemicals are needed at all levels of government. (New Solut. 2007 Jan 1;17 (3):193-207 17959562.
Yet, other advanced Democracies including but not limited to France are successful in banning bioaccumulative toxicity. Some comparative evidence: Ingredients used in American personal care products: 10,500. Portion of chemical ingredients in cosmetics that have been assessed for health and safety by the industry’s self policing safety panel: 11 percent. Ingredients banned from cosmetics. USA 10. To see the evidence on this issue, please click here.
In Europe, home of the precautionary principle doctrine, there were not 10, but 1100 of these toxic cosmetic ingredients which were considered unsafe and thus banned (www.safecosmetics.org), thanks to the precautionary principle.
“When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.” (Wingspread Statement, 1998)
In a similar vein, we can not achieve the goal of cutting chronic diseases by half in four years without the legal institutionalization of therapeutic (i.e., health, medical) freedoms, meaning that there should be a non discriminatory approach to all empirically-based health-care techniques. From the People's health perspective, there is thus a need to democratize the State's monopoly on "certified official medicine". The World Health Organization has classified over one hundred medical approaches. France has legalized many of these approaches, including, but not limited to acupuncture and homeopathy since 1946 (both of which are reimbursed by the State, including Spa hotsprings medicine).
As Moore's movie on "Sicko" shows, the American chosen mainstream official medicine (called allopathy, meaning drugs and surgery) and its administrative system have too many drawbacks, (see the evidence of multiple hundreds of thousands of Americans who die each year because of this type of medicine).
On the other hand, paying heed to British Prime Minister Disraeli demonstration that health is the most precious resource of a Nation, the European Parliament has recognized over a dozen of innovative and integrative medical approaches, from naturopathy, to homeopathy, phyto-therapy, aromatherapy and acupuncture and others. There are enough protective criminal laws to prevent medical deceit and heretic and-or orthodox quackery. The People need to decide themselves what is their best medicine and when needed, get financial assistance for the health plan that works for them.
"Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body”. THE HONORABLE Justice CARDOZO et al, in SCHLOENDORFF v. SOCIETY OF N.Y. HOSP., 211 N.Y. 125, 129, 105 N.E. 92, 93 (1914).
In this perspective, Franco-American public health collaboration could encourage American health professionals to better inform patients (including via the advanced French "carte vitale" electronic data system) of all scientifically based prognostic and treatment procedures, including alternative, natural, integrative, “cam” (complementary and alternative medicine) and holistic therapies and approaches, without which the patient's consent is not secured. (See patient's bill of rights).
In this perspective, the U.S would benefit from the French and European "precautionary principle", which puts the "safety" burden of proof on the producer, before the product is placed on the market.
A U.S Ambassador to France with extensive health experience can be useful for American public health. If one of America's goals is to institutionalize a responsible free choice public-private holistic health system that would exclude no one, French colloboration and health savoir-faire would be useful.
Among other measures and pending Legislation, there may be a social need to adopt three executive orders, if only to catch up to our European and French allies.
1. An executive order on persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals measures (Click here the candidate's Wa State model proposal).
2. A second executive order on measures to implement the People's right to benefit from equal access to holistic health (Click here for the candidate's Wa State proposal)
3. A third executive order on teaching and implemeting integrative longevity medicine. Being "elderly" does not equate to being "sick". (See the Vilcambans, Hunza and other centenarians villages where there are few if any chronic diseases, including the Seven Day Adventist Church Comunity whose members benefit from a significant reduction of chronic diseases thanks to their lifestyle, education, spirituality and vegetarianism). Sickness is a result of not paying attention, of violating lifestyle medicine's principles. The normal path to "death" is for one's soul to leave Planet Earth when one i
The normal path to "death" is for one's soul to leave Planet Earth when one is ready from a vibrational standpoint, via the expiration action mechanism.
Jeanne Calmant was the French woman who died at 126 years old, the oldest recorded death in the World. In addition to genes, lifestyle and mind-set are essential. The French may have information and techniques we can use. A U.S Ambassador to France should focus on these issues as well. .
By advocating before the State Legislature and the US Congress as many as possible of the 38 public health measures outlined in my gubernatorial WA State Action Plan's platform, we would give American back their health and vitality (Click here for some of those measures).
If these proposals were implemented, chronic diseases and acute pain rate in the U.S. could be reduced by half in four years and there would also be less urgency in establishing long term care services for the elderly and persons with disabilities, if only because holistic health would bestow upon the majority of Americans health and resiliency. In addition, thanks to the implementation of the Action Plan's detox and holistic health measures, there would be substantial savings for all parties.
Any American or Foreign public policy on the economy and on peace building will be vain unless and until the People benefit from equal access to holistic health. If only because chronic diseases and our "sickness system" drain one of seven U.S dollars, because of which the State's public finance and the People's hard earned savings and moral are in jeopardy. Indeed, and alas, medical bills continue to be one of the first causes to bankrupcies and one of the first causes to foreclosures, (click here to examine the evidence).
All possible Franco-American input and exchanges to better the health conditions in the two countries would thus be a progressive and enlightening foreign objective. In this light, President Obama did write that he would:
"Promote international efforts to develop new diagnostics, vaccines, and medicines that will be available and affordable in all parts of the world. " (The President's Agenda).
And by "new (...) medicines" it can be construed that some of these new medicines will be based on holistic, integrative and innovative Science.
I am presently working on a concrete Franco-American Diplomatic plan of action to contribute in finding solutions to these challenges. Meanwhile, please see my gubernatorial efforts in this realm, notably via three fundamental freedoms, the ignorance of which destroys Nations life-blood.
1. First, freedom from chronic chemical toxicity, chronic diseases and chronic destructive stress.
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