Lyme
disease, do you have it? If you did, you probably wouldn’t know –
unless you’re one of the chronic sufferers that have had to visit over
30 doctors to get a proper diagnosis. Lyme disease tests are highly
inaccurate, often inconclusive or indicating false negatives.
Why? Because this clever bacteria has found a
way to dumb down the immune system and white blood cells so that it’s
not detectable until treatment is initiated. To diagnose Lyme properly
you must see a “Lyme Literate MD
(LLMD),” however, more and more doctors are turning their backs on
patients due to sheer fear of losing their practices! Insurance
companies and the CDC will do whatever it takes to stop Chronic Lyme
Disease from being diagnosed, treated, or widely recognized as an
increasingly common issue.
Lyme is considered by the medical field to
“only” transmit by way of a tick infected with bacteria. However, the
CDC itself admits it is under-reported, and believes there are between
300,000 to half a million new cases each year. That makes Lyme disease
almost twice as common as breast cancer and six times more common than
HIV/AIDS. Where are all of these new cases coming from? (It’s
interesting to note that since Avril Lavigne recently went public with
her Chronic Lyme Disease battle, mainstream news outlets like The Daily
Mail have been mentioning Lyme can be transmitted by mosquitoes, too!
When Lyme isn’t detected in the early stages,
it becomes Chronic Lyme, a condition which the CDC and IDSA both deny
even exists. They will continue to deny it, because if there’s one thing
insurance companies hate, it’s chronic disorders they have to spend
time and money treating. Therefore, a panel with ties to insurance
companies gathered to write up official Lyme guidelines that assure
patients are only allowed a few weeks of antibiotic treatment and are
not to be diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease (even if clear symptoms
persist and invade the nervous system). Over half of the panelists who
wrote the IDSA Lyme guidelines announcing that Chronic Lyme is not real —
including the panel chairman — have obvious conflicts of interest
including financial interests in drug companies, diagnostic tests, and
patents, as well as consulting agreements with insurance companies.
Researchers and scientists with evidence in
support of Chronic Lyme were intentionally excluded from the panel.
Because of these unjust Lyme guidelines, insurance companies have the
“right” to deny coverage for the treatment of long-term Lyme disease.
Doctors have even lost their practices for successfully diagnosing
and treating Chronic Lyme, as shown in the film Under Our Skin. In the
case of Dr. Joseph Jemsek of North Carolina, he not only lost his
license, but also his livelihood. Dr. Jemsek can no longer practice
simply because he gave antibiotics to Chronic Lyme sufferers, and was
then sued by BCBS for 100 million dollars, following which he had to
declare bankruptcy. You can read his closing remarks to the NC Medical Board just before they pulled his license here. You can also watch his story in the documentary at the end of this post.
Busted – Big Pharma bucks taint the IDSA
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