No. Put your faith in the alternative and holistic health field. The western medical machine has marginalized, demonized, and even tried to eliminate alternative holistic treatment for the better part of a century. The only reason these alternative providers are still around is because they actually continue to help the public restore health in natural conservative manners that work....and the public itself won't allow these professionals to die out or be absorbed.

OTOH there are quite a few MD's and nurse practitioners making the foray into functional medicine. As it becomes more and more evident that their sick care model is not working some of them are changing tactic. The sad thing is nobody will remember that for an overwhelming amount of time they claimed anything but allopathic medicine was dangerous pseudoscience.

I like the concept of "sick care" or "catastrophe care" for the medical model.....and "health care" for the holistic model.

It's like asking if it's possible to save the Roman Empire. Sorry, the barbarians are past the gates, and the problem is far deeper than just the medical industry.

Whenever things like financing and insurance enter into anything, the cost goes up astronomically. I wasn't alive back then, but from what I understand, people were able to afford doctors as needed, and doctors made house calls in the past century. Also, cars and houses weren't something you got loans for, people would save up and buy them as needed.

Introduce financing, and you've got an incentive for raising prices astronomically - and of course debt and debt slavery. Introduce health-insurance and the same happens in the medical field.

In the end, all roads lead to the banksters.

Read Pharmadegddon (Healy, 2012) and then educate your MDs..They need to know how and why Big Pharm took their jobs...and now they are nothing more than pill pushers.

I'll play Devil's advocate here. While there are alternative holistic treatments that can be effective for some things, major illnesses (like cancer; AIDS; drug-resistant Staph and Gonorrhea; severe burns; organ failures) have no naturalistic alternative. Western medicine has done wonders for the human race and it's short sighted to claim it is 'dead' or 'beyond saving'.

Yes, there are cases of exploitation or abuse, especially in the diet/weight-loss arena. But diet pills are less a reflection of the medical industry, and more a reflection of the pharmacological. They are looking for profit and selling diet pills is very profitable. Doctors often prescribe them, but that is because their patients want a quick/easy fix. "Exercise and eat better" is still the most common advice.

I think you are making the mistake of lumping the medical industry in with the supplement industry.

As a nurse in a nursing home I can say for sure...NOPE. The system is corrupted by drug companies. Anytime a new drug comes out, it shows up first in nursing homes. Wonder why...hmmmmm.