Open Letter to President Obama from Rev. Malkmous of Hallelujah Acres Health Ministry

The Hallelujah Health Tip Issue #594: Open Letter to President Obama Regarding Health Care ReformApril 7, 2009
(5) Open Letter To President Obama Regarding Health Care Reform Subject: Health Care problems in the United States and proposed legislation to correct them. I come to you as a citizen of these United States of America to offer a solution to a problem that is not only causing tremendous suffering to our people . . . . but is also bankrupting our great nation. Mr. President, I believe you sincerely want an answer to this dilemma; therefore I submit the following for your consideration: 1. “Health is the largest failing business in America,” says Prof. E Cheraskin, M.D. of the University Of Alabama School Of Medicine. “The health care crisis is slowly bankrupting our citizens and our country. Costs for health care are climbing four times faster than the rate of inflation. In 1992 we spent $817 billion on health care while 1993 is expected to cost $942 Billion. During 1994 it is projected to reach $1 Trillion and by the turn of the century $2 Trillion.” 2. Current ‘Health Care’ costs in America have reached $2.4 Trillion today and forecast to double in coming years. The current ‘Health Care’ plan being advanced will not stop this constant increase in medical costs! Actually, it will accelerate the rise in health care costs as more and more people are brought into a system that has already proven to be a failure. 3. We are a sick nation even though we are spending more to treat sickness per capita than any other nation on earth! If our present methods of treating disease worked, wouldn’t our people be healthier? 4. These somber facts are strong proof that the health of the American people is not getting better regardless of how much money is poured into so-called ‘Health Care’. Also, these statistics reflect the poor health of our population even though over 70% of Americans already possess health insurance. Obviously, possessing health insurance does not produce health. 5. Calling the proposed legislation a ‘Health-Care’ plan is a misnomer! It would be more accurate to call the proposed plan a ‘Disease-Care’ plan. The plan being advanced will not produce health! On the contrary it will continue to perpetuate the same status quo of sickness and ill health we currently face while costing ever more money. 6. Countries that have ‘Health Care’ plans similar to the one you are proposing (e.g., Canada, France, & England) have found it to be an increasingly more costly plan that just doesn’t provide quality health care for all citizens. In fact it has become so costly; they now having to ration health care. 7. Our present health-care system is geared to rewarding sickness and its treatment! It allows people that create their physical problems by improper diet and lifestyle to be rewarded when they get sick by providing them with health care, often paid for by those who take care of their bodies so as to maintain health. National Health Care would also allow physicians, hospitals and drug companies to make ever-larger sums of money because the plan promotes and perpetuates the treating of symptoms rather than the prevention of disease. 8. The proposed plan will increase our taxes and put even more money into a failing health-care system that, by any standards, offers ridiculously high costs and pathetically poor results. It would be hard to imagine another American institution that offers less value per dollar. This is a system we must reform rather than expand, if we truly want to improve the health of the American people! Mr. President, If we are going to correct the above problems, A RADICAL CHANGE IS NECESSARY – and it must be radically different from the wasteful, profit-oriented program that governs our current health-care system. HERE IS WHAT I PROPOSE: 1. Shift our emphasis to the prevention of disease rather than the current goal of merely trying to treat disease after it has occurred. The public must be told how to alter their diet and lifestyle so that disease is not created in the first place. This would be true health-care reform. The proposed health-care reform is doomed to failure because it is geared to treating the symptoms of sickness rather than the causes of sickness! Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation says: “The next major advance is the assumption of individual’s responsibility for one’s own health and a necessary change in lifestyle.” With knowledge, people would then be able to intelligently choose between a system that promotes wellness through proper diet and lifestyle versus a system that promotes disease and rewards an industry with a vested interest in sickness and disease. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare says: “. . . it has become clear that only by preventing disease rather than treating it later, can we hope to achieve any major improvement in the nation’s health.” 2. Educate the people! True health-care will not result by rewarding people who continue their disease-producing diet and lifestyles. Any health-care plan that does not have as its primary goal the education of the American people as to what they should and should not eat to produce wellness will fail! It will only produce more physical problems and larger expenditures of money. Almost all sickness and disease is caused by improper diet and lifestyle, not by bacteria, viruses or inherited genes as we have been led to believe. The way to restore wellness to the American people is to teach them how to eat and live so as to create wellness. Dr. Beverly Winikoff of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York said: “...There is a widespread and unfounded confidence in the ability of medical science to cure or mitigate the effects of such diseases once they occur. Appropriate public education must emphasize the unfortunate but clear limitations of current medical practice in curing the common killer diseases. Once hypertension, diabetes, arteriosclerosis or heart disease are manifested, there is, in reality very little that medical science can do to return a patient to normal physiological function. As awareness of this limitation increases, the importance of prevention will become all the more obvious.” 3. Any new health-care plan must be one that encourages health by rewarding wellness and those who maintain health! Most disease is self-induced by improper diet and lifestyle, thus, almost all sickness and disease is preventable by a diet and lifestyle that produces wellness. Any health-care plan that does not place the responsibility for maintaining health on the individual will fail. If you feel it is necessary to continue paying for the medical treatments of those who refuse to change their diet and lifestyle, then please reward those who maintain wellness. A voucher system would be a tremendous incentive. Allot every American citizen X number of dollars a year for health care. If they don’t spend it, then send them a check each year for the amount not used. 4. Products that produce ill health should be heavily taxed. Let those who manufacture unhealthy products and those who consume them help pay for the physical problems they produce. Some examples: Beverage alcohol . . . . Saturated Fat . . . . Refined Sugar . . . . etc. If we are going to improve the health of our people, we must warn them of the consequences of eating and drinking things that harm them. Calling the public’s attention to the harm these products are doing by placing a tax and warning labels (as we currently do on tobacco) certainly would be a positive step. 5. Government-controlled institutions and agencies must not be allowed to use their power to promote sickness and disease! Some examples: Medical Schools – Of the 129 state-accredited medical schools in America, only 29 require a course in nutrition. Doctors receive an average of less than 2 hours of nutritional training in medical school. This is outrageous! Doctor’s must become promoters of health through diet and lifestyle rather than just the treater of disease! The American Dietetic Association (ADA) is responsible for approving all meals served in our public schools, jails, hospitals and to the elderly. An evaluation of these meals would show that they are high in sugar, saturated fat, table salt and white flour, while being of little nutritional value. An evaluation of the meals served in our nation’s hospitals would reveal a menu that produces sickness rather than helping in the healing of those hospitalized. Each year, the USDA buys over $4 billion worth of surplus foods (with tax payers’ money), which it donates to the nation’s schools. Ninety percent of the USDA surplus foods are eggs, high-fat cheeses, butter, ground pork, ground beef and whole milk. If the USDA had gone out intentionally to obtain foods that would destroy the health of our children they could hardly have done better. This use of taxpayers’ money to produce sickness in the youth of America is intolerable and must be stopped. We are spending taxpayers’ money to subsidize farmers to grow tobacco instead of vegetables. Then we use taxpayers’ monies for anti-smoking public education campaigns and the treatment of cancer and heart disease caused by smoking. Why are we funding both sides of the war on cancer? If we are going to use government subsidies to encourage farmers to grow specific crops, these should be healthful products, not products that cause disease. Even the Food Stamp program needs to be re-evaluated. While not allowing Food Stamps to be used for the purchase of alcohol and tobacco, Food Stamps can be used to purchase products loaded with sugar and oozing with saturated fat. Thus tax payer money is being used to pay for the very foods that create disease and then tax payers monies are used in an attempt to restore health to those same individuals who got sick consuming products paid for by tax payers. Please consider my own personal experience of regaining my health by doing something as simple as making a change in my diet: Thirty-three years ago I was told I had colon cancer. Mother had experienced terrible results going the medical route for her colon cancer before me. Because of mother’s bad experience going the medical route (at her death I felt the treatments were the cause of her death not the cancer), I went looking for an alternative approach to my cancer. At the advice of a friend, I adopted the diet God gave Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and almost immediately started to get well. Within less than a year my cancer was gone. TRUE HEALING IS SELF-HEALING as we give the body the nutrients it needs to rebuild its immune system and self healing mechanisms so that the body can do what God designed it to do, which is heal itself. And my personal experiences are not unique! Seventeen years ago I birthed a ministry called Hallelujah Acres. At the same time I started promoting a diet based on the diet God gave Adam and Eve, as found in the Bible in Genesis 1:29. It is called The Hallelujah Diet. Millions have embraced the diet and tens of thousands have written to tell me that they have recovered from over 170 different physical problems, including terminal cancers, by simply applying the principles I teach. One gentleman, after only six months on The Hallelujah Diet, reported a 60 pound weight loss, the disappearance of 28 different physical problems, and he was able to eliminate all medications. I have trained approximately 9,000 Health Ministers (including 61 medical doctors) to help me take our Health Message to the world, and we currently have Hallelujah Acres trained Health Ministers in every state in the United States as well as in 46 foreign countries. I have also appeared on ABC Nightline, the 700 Club, Trinity Broadcasting, as well as all major TV networks, The Food Network, and Fox News. Personally, I have been on The Hallelujah Diet for over 33 years and have used it to recover completely not only from colon cancer, but also a hemorrhagic stroke, without any help from the medical community. Nor have I had a single cold or the flu since making the diet change in 1976. Currently I am 75 years of age and can physically do anything I could do as a 20 year old, and am referred to as the Energizer Bunny. President Obama, please investigate what I have shared. Because of the financial profits from treating disease, you will find very limited support from those in the Medical Community for objective research into the benefits of preventative health care based on changes in diet and lifestyle. Modern science is learning much about the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables, and the ways that vitamins, minerals and enzymes help our bodies to heal naturally. But still most medical research is confined to looking for answers from pharmaceutical drugs, new surgical procedures, radiation, chemotherapy, etc. – in other words, things from which the medical establishment can make profit. It’s sad to say, but the medical establishment has a tremendous financial incentive in keeping our population dependent on expensive surgical procedures, costly prescriptions and over-the-counter remedies consumed on a daily basis by sick people. On the other hand, it’s great when people are able to cure themselves simply by eating a natural diet and exercising. Sadly, our present health-care system is geared to providing what is most profitable for physicians, drug companies and hospitals, not to what is best for the people of our great land. This, Mr. President, is what must be changed if you wish to implement TRUE HEALTH CARE REFORM! CONCLUDING THOUGHTS – If the health of the American people is to be improved and if the staggering cost of health care is to be curbed, we must look outside the current and established systems. And I am not advocating the use of synthetic vitamins, herbs or homeopathic remedies as the solution. These substances, along with all drugs, only deal with symptoms caused by improper diet and lifestyle. What I am saying is that almost all physical problems are caused by putting into our body substances they were never biologically designed to handle . . . substances that are actually toxic to the body. Just as our automobile will not function properly if the wrong fuel is placed in the gas tank, neither will our bodies function properly if the wrong foods are put into them. Almost all physical problems (other than accidents of course), can be eliminated and perfect health maintained by proper diet and lifestyle! My experience has even shown that when people adopt the diet and lifestyle we teach, most mental and emotional problems also disappear. “WHEN PEOPLE LEARN AND PRACTICE ‘THE ART OF RIGHT LIVING,’ PHYSICIANS MAY GO BACK TO THEIR FARMS AND WORKSHOPS.”Dr. Isaac Jennings, 1830 If I can be of assistance in any way, please do not hesitate to call on me. My life is committed to restoring our country to health and sane living. Sincerely for a Healthy America! Rev. George Malkmus, Lit.D.Founder of Hallelujah AcresShelby, North CarolinaEmail: george@hacres.comWeb: www.hacres.com (EDITOR’S NOTE: If you agree with the contents of this letter, and feel strongly about the need to truly reform our health care system, please see that this letter gets in the hands of as many people as possible, especially people with the power to make these necessary changes in our approach to health care – your Senators and Representatives, talk show hosts, and your local newspapers for starters.)