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Yes, there is direct a link from your diet  to your health.  Why don’t most doctors do the right thing and tell people to change what they consume in their diets? Of course, not all doctors are bad. Here is an example where a doctor prescribed a better diet and got this patient off of numerous prescriptions and shots.

Another patient who changed her diet and health for the better.

Bezos, Dell, Carey want health insurance dead

Laughter may be the best medicine, but comedian Drew Carey is also offering cold hard cash to help solve the country’s medical woes. The host of the Price is Right has formed an unlikely triumverate with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Dell Computer founder Michael Dell, all of whom contributed to a $6 million funding round for Qliance Medical Management, a Seattle-based startup that hopes to disrupt the healthcare industry by taking insurance companies out of the equation for primary care. This round brings the three-year-old startup’s total funding to $13.5 million.

The company charges patients a monthly fee–$44 for minors to $84 to senior–for basic primary care that includes check ups, vaccinations, x-rays, women’s health exams and other services, according to TechFlash. No copays, no insurance premiums, no health care statements.The money goes straight to the three clinics Qliance operates in Washington State. Time that the 13 doctors and nurse practitioners on staff would normally dedicate to insurance paperwork can instead go to patients.

Members will still want insurance for catastrophic events–anything that could require surgery or other specialist care, for example, but on the whole they save money, according to Qliance. CEO Norm Wu says that about 40% of the primary care costs at traditional healthcare providers go to processing insurance claims.

About 70 employers in Washington state have signed up since the company started accepting payments directly from business and self-insured plans that couple Qliance’s offering with insurance for catastrophic events. Wu says these corporate customers achieve 20 to 50% savings.

Bezos, Carey and Dell all came in contact with the company through connections to Nick Hanauer, a Seattle venture capitalist who was an early backer of Amazon. There involvement should help garner attention for the 60-person company.

One of Qliance’s clinics in downtown Seattle is operating at a profit, according to Wu, who plans to tap the buesiness acument of his new investors to help replicate that success elsewhere.

President Obama video on Health Care

The health care debate was not on C-Span. The main negotiations were behind closed doors. Brian Lamb wouldn’t of asked otherwise.

Real Clear Politics:

Brian Lamb has put President Obama on the spot. Lamb is the CEO of C-Span, and today he wrote a letter to the leaders of Congress asking them to allow cameras in the room for the final negotiations on the health care bill. Lamb wrote:

President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation’s editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation’s health care system. Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.

Worried White House Video

MSNBC:

RICHMOND, VA – As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to pass a health plan with important benefits for the average American. For the typical family, costs would go down by as much as $2,500 a year. Adults wouldn’t be required to buy insurance. No one but the wealthy would face higher taxes.

But a year later, the health care proposals in Congress lack many of those easy-to-sell benefits, which became victims of the lengthy process of trying to win over wavering lawmakers, appeasing powerful special-interest groups and addressing concerns about the heavily burdened Treasury.

“There’s nothing in it the average person could understand about why your costs would be lower,” says Robert Blendon, professor of health policy at Harvard’s School of Public Health. “They don’t even have good illustrations about how it would be cheaper. They did not find a way to save money for people with job-based insurance.”

In short, the broken promises represents the crap they have been trying to sell the American public, but we aren’t buying it.