Episode Summary
In this episode of The Expat Files, Johnny Mueller dives into the world of stem cell treatments, comparing their availability and effectiveness in Latin America versus the United States. He highlights that while stem cell treatments are considered experimental in the US and Canada, they are more readily available in Latin America, particularly in clinics staffed by board-certified American doctors. Johnny shares personal anecdotes about his family members who have benefited from these treatments, including his mother, brother with rheumatoid arthritis, and another brother with heart issues. He emphasizes that these treatments are not only used for medical conditions but also for anti-aging purposes, with many Hollywood figures and athletes seeking them out. Johnny concludes by noting that the US has a high rate of hip and joint replacements, while Latin America sees fewer such procedures unless individuals adopt unhealthy gringo lifestyles.
In this segment, Johnny Mueller discusses the potential of stem cell therapy as an alternative to traditional medical treatments for chronic diseases. He lists various conditions that could benefit from stem cell therapy, such as Alzheimer's, joint problems, and autoimmune diseases. He emphasizes that stem cell treatment is relatively simple, involving an IV drip and a few injections, and is often more cost-effective than major surgeries like hip or knee replacements. Johnny also highlights the high cost of stem cell treatments in the U.S. and the availability of more affordable options in Latin America. He argues that the medical establishment may resist stem cell treatments because they threaten the profitability of the pharmaceutical and surgical industries. Johnny concludes by suggesting that the medical establishment has little incentive to support stem cell therapy due to its potential to disrupt existing profit models.
Johnny Mueller discusses the outcomes of his advice on finding affordable, high-quality stem cell treatments in Mexico, particularly in Puerto Vallarta. He shares positive feedback from a Canadian listener, Mel, who underwent stem cell therapy and IV treatments. Mel reports significant pain reduction, improved mobility, and better sleep, attributing her recovery to the treatment and the quality of care. Johnny also highlights the challenges of convincing his family member, who is under the care of a Chicago-based doctor, to consider the treatment as a vacation rather than a medical procedure. He emphasizes the importance of patient autonomy and the role of alternative medical options in the face of traditional medical skepticism.
The podcast segment discusses the positive impact of stem cell treatments on a listener's health, particularly regarding hip pain and other conditions. The listener, who had been advised in 2019 to undergo a hip replacement, reports an 80% reduction in pain within two weeks of treatment. They also mention the fading of hereditary dark spots on their hands and express gratitude for the information provided by Johnny Mueller on stem cells. The listener plans to attend a seminar in Guatemala and acknowledges the role of the podcast in their recovery. Johnny also references Joe Rogan's podcast and his own experience with stem cell treatments, noting that Rogan's knee pain has resolved after treatment. Johnny discusses the potential for stem cell treatments to be approved by insurance companies, highlighting the cost savings for insurers but questioning whether these savings would be passed on to consumers. The segment concludes with Johnny's observations on Canadian expats' dissatisfaction with their national healthcare system, noting that younger individuals tend to praise it more than older expats.
In this segment, Johnny Mueller discusses the Canadian and British national health care systems, highlighting the challenges and criticisms of these systems. He references personal experiences and anecdotes from individuals who have encountered problems with these systems. Johnny also shares an article about the British National Health Service (NHS), which describes the system's issues, including long waiting times, a shortage of medical professionals, and high mortality rates among patients waiting for treatment. He critiques the inefficiency of government-run systems and suggests that cutting out insurance companies and big pharma could reduce healthcare costs, but he emphasizes that government management of healthcare leads to disaster. Johnny concludes by expressing skepticism about the feasibility of national health care and suggests that it will be implemented but not effectively.
This segment is a call to action for listeners of The Expat Files, encouraging them to reach out to Johnny Mueller for one-on-one consultations or to join his upcoming expat insider seminar. The segment emphasizes the benefits of the seminar, such as gaining a head start on plan B for expat life.
Topics
Stem cell treatments in Latin America, Comparison of stem cell availability in the US and Latin America, Personal anecdotes about stem cell therapy, Anti-aging and medical applications of stem cells, Hip and joint replacement rates in the US vs. Latin America, Stem cell therapy as an alternative to traditional medical treatments, Cost comparison between U.S. and Latin American stem cell treatments, Potential conflict of interest in the medical establishment's resistance to stem cell therapy, Economic impact of stem cell therapy on the pharmaceutical and surgical industries, Stem cell treatment, Medical tourism, Patient autonomy and alternative medicine in healthcare decisions
Chapters
00:00:00 Opening 00:00:31 Introduction to Stem Cell Treatments in Latin America 00:01:24 Why Stem Cell Treatments Are More Accessible in Latin America 00:03:00 Personal Stories of Stem Cell Therapy Success 00:04:22 Anti-Aging and Medical Applications of Stem Cells 00:05:08 Hip and Joint Replacement Rates in the US vs. Latin America 00:05:28 List of Chronic Diseases That Could Benefit from Stem Cell Therapy 00:06:41 Stem Cell Therapy as a Viable Alternative to Major Surgeries 00:07:51 Cost Comparison and Accessibility of Stem Cell Treatments 00:08:54 Conflict of Interest in the Medical Establishment's Resistance to Stem Cell Therapy 00:10:56 Economic Impact of Stem Cell Therapy on the Medical Industry 00:11:09 Introduction to the topic of stem cell treatment and affordability 00:11:16 Recommendation for the least expensive treatments from the highest quality clinics 00:11:20 Discussion of the impact of Johnny's advice on listeners 00:11:26 Overview of listeners who traveled south of the border for stem cell treatment 00:11:30 Introduction to the emails Johnny will read from listeners 00:17:19 Payoff: The listener's hip pain has significantly reduced after stem cell treatment. 00:17:24 Payoff: The listener praises stem cell treatments as miraculous. 00:17:30 Setup: The listener had been advised to undergo a hip replacement in 2019. 00:17:38 Setup: The listener is pleased to report they won't need the hip replacement now. 00:17:44 Setup: The listener attributes their recovery to Johnny's podcast on stem cells. 00:18:21 Payoff: The listener's condition is described as having a happy ending. 00:19:55 Payoff: Johnny expresses a personal aversion to surgery and a desire to avoid unnecessary procedures. 00:20:14 Setup: Insurance companies in the US do not cover stem cell treatments unless they are considered routine. 00:22:01 Introduction to Criticism of Canadian Healthcare System 00:22:23 Link Between Canadian and British Healthcare Systems 00:22:40 Johnny's Personal Experience with British Healthcare 00:23:59 Discussion of UK Healthcare Spending and Trends 00:24:19 Overview of the NHS's Financial and Operational Issues 00:25:27 Discussion of Patient Mortality Rates in the NHS 00:26:23 Johnny's Suggestions for Reforming Healthcare Systems 00:26:51 Criticism of Government-Run Healthcare Systems 00:27:38 Call to Action for Consultations 00:27:44 Introduction to the Expat Insider Seminar 00:27:50 Benefits of Attending the Seminar
Transcript
Automatically transcribed from the original recording; names and wording may contain errors.
[00:00] South of the border down Mexico way That's where I fell in love when the stars above came out to play and now I wonder Hello there all you ex-pat wannabes. I'm Johnny Mueller and you're listening to the expat files living in Latin America The show that tells you just what it's like to live work play and or retire down here in Latin America It's a mix of the good the bad the ugly and the great and it's all right here. So let's get started You know ever since I did a particular show about six months ago regarding stem cells here in Latin America I've been getting lots of emails and inquiries on the subject now Of course, we all know there are treatments available in Latin America and other parts of the world that are not available in the US
[00:46] Like for example mesenchymal placenta and umbilical cord stem cell treatments Whereas, you know up in the States and Canada and almost all first world countries. They're considered Experimental, of course up in the states you can get stem cell treatment But it's bone marrow where they pull the stem cells from your own bone marrow Which I understand is one of the most painful procedures You can undergo because they have to core out or trephonate one of your bones And how do they do that? Well with a drill, you know, just thinking about that gives me the willies now Those are stem cells, but they're not nearly as prolific active energetic or as potent as stem cells They pull from the umbilical cord placenta or what they call mesenchymal cells. So then why don't they do that stuff up in the states? Well, they do but it's still considered experimental sooner or later
[01:35] It will become commonplace But as for now you can't get them up in the states unless you're involved in one of those clinical trials and then half the time You'll get a placebo. Of course, you won't know it because that's how they do the studies That's what you call double blind meaning the receiver of the treatment is blind to the fact whether he or she is gonna get the real One or the placebo same thing with the administrator and evaluator of the test He or she doesn't know who got the real or the placebo either However, the great thing is there are some places in Latin America some clinics You can get the mesenchymal stem cell treatments exactly as they would do it up in the states If you were in one of those clinical trials and actually getting the real thing and in some of those stem cell clinics here in Latin America board-certified American doctors are there to give you the treatment Think about it
[02:20] Isn't that crazy that the same doctors that can't do the treatments up in the states for regular patients come down to Latin American Clinics and do it on people because they know just how well it works So as mentioned there are lots of little clinics here in Latin America that do it and one particular one in Panama is staffed By those American doctors and that's also the most expensive one because hell American prices, right? Believe it or not. The Panama Clinic is three times as expensive as some of the other ones So if it's done by Latino doctors, it's gonna be a hell of a lot cheaper Even though the equipment they use is all first-world state-of-the-art Understand I have nothing to gain financially or otherwise by telling you this stuff only to say that I know of cases personally of people Who've gone to these centers and have had the treatments. In fact, I'm going there myself. I think it's gonna be next month
[03:05] I'm bringing my mother and my two brothers my mother because she's 89 and she fell down and broke her arm in three places then it's just not healing right after about a half a year my brother because he's in his early 50s and has a Terrible case of rheumatoid arthritis and he had many sports injuries cartilage tears Ligament repairs from back in the day and now they're coming back to haunt him Then there's my other brother who's in his 40s who in his prime was a power lifting champion in Illinois And by the time he hit 30, he got into the American terrible diet rut put on a hundred pounds His doctor said you got to lose it because your heart is being way too stressed and him with the German discipline Lost a hundred pounds in six months in doing so in reverse. He put so much extra strain on his heart He ended up with heart stents The cardiac surgeon said his heart was enlarged and ejection fraction was so low that fairly soon
[03:55] He'll be on a heart transplant list. So there in my own family We've got some of the three best cases for stem cell therapy. That would be bone and cartilage repair arthritis and heart damage Of course stem cells are good for lots of other things, too For one thing many many thousands of people are doing it for anti-aging Seems like there's a constant flow of Hollywood old-timers Going down to Mexico and other places south of south of the border to get pumped up with stem cells once a year or so Doctors are saying it could add a good 10 years to your productive life that includes better brain power agility strength and physical endurance Now I've talked to a few doctors and technicians at these clinics and people are mostly coming down from the states for hip joint and heart Issues and there's a steady flow of professional athletes making their way south of the border, too
[04:42] With countless cases of people coming down from the states whose doctors have told them in no uncertain terms They absolutely need a hip knee or some other joint replacement But as it turns out in the vast majority of these cases after stem cell therapy the person's joint regenerates and does not need a replacement Talk about great news, huh? Because you know as it turns out the US is the land of hip and joint replacements You've heard me say it many times on this show You just never run into people here in Latin America that have had a hip or joint replacement unless they're gringos or upscale Latins extreme gringo wannabes who have completely copied our bad gringo diets and sedentary lifestyles But that's another subject. So then you might ask what other medical problems are stem cells good for diabetes
[05:28] Alzheimer's all kinds of joint problems anemia asthma autism celiac disease Cerebrovascular disease cirrhosis colitis Crohn's disease and fibromyalgia amongst others. In fact, there's almost no chronic disease It doesn't have a positive effect on including HIV and hypertension Of course, I'm no medical doctor, but you might recall me mentioning. I have a double degree electrical engineering and Biomedical engineering. Hmm. What's that? Well, all you have to do is walk into any treatment room in the hospital or emergency room. Look at all the diagnostic equipment That's what it's all about these days, right? Computerized diagnostic equipment. Well, who do you think designs that? Biomedical engineers. Yep, and I'd be one of those. Well, I used to be anyway In fact, the first job I was offered out of engineering school was to work at GE
[06:16] Medical as a project engineer in the tomography and CAT scan division turned it down though because its headquarters was in Milwaukee hey there. Well almost hey there Anyway, I'm only throwing those credentials out there So, you know, I'm not just a talking head parroting things I've read on the internet though Some people might disagree with that assessment Now one of the reasons I'm bringing this subject up again besides the fact that I think it's absolutely imperative if you've got one of those chronic diseases to check out the stem cell option because all it is is an IV that Takes an hour or so and in a couple of injections and you're done And maybe depending on how you feel you come back a year or two or three later Come on Isn't that infinitely preferable to having major surgery ripping out your knee or hip socket and gluing in an artificial titanium?
[07:04] Substitute fact is I think people are nuts to undergo operations like that without at least looking into stem cells though Of course, some people might say it's way too expensive and insurance doesn't cover it But really who gives a rip if insurance doesn't cover it if it comes down to going under the knife and getting some artificial parts put in versus a few injections in an IV drip now about the cost in some cases It really is expensive. You've got the high-end case a clinic in Panama That one's actually run by American doctors who also work at a clinic in Texas and to get their most expensive treatment It's 22,000 bucks However, there are other clinics in Latin America that have the same equipment and the same highly trained technicians and very knowledgeable doctors Providing the very same treatment for from five to eight thousand bucks
[07:51] So the big deterrent here is not the treatment It's the dough and the fact that most Americans are reluctant to fly down to a foreign country where they don't speak the language And they hear all kinds of stories about banana republics and they're thinking yeah It's probably like that in the clinics and hospitals, too so you could say the real deterrent is not so much money, but the lack of knowledge and Because of that I'd say 98% of all Americans have no idea what stem cells are have no idea What kind of treatments exist outside the US and if they have any knowledge about it at all? They probably got it from a news report or an article. They read somewhere that either poop hooted Because the article or news report was sponsored by Big Pharma or the big pharmaceutical Prosthetic companies even so they could have read a very positive article about stem cells
[08:37] Then they went back and talked to their doctor and their doctor poo pooed it now Why would he do that because the prosthetic replacement business in the US is huge as his heart bypass surgery and stents? Let's face it who stands to win big and lose big with stem cell treatments The winner is the public the losers Big Pharma doctors hospitals and their surgical units and the billion dollar prosthetic industry Let's face it if you have a heart operation or stents the operations at least 25 grand Not to mention you're on multiple medications for life and if stem cells do the trick no operation No prescription meds and when you're talking about a hip or knee replacement That's 25 grand minimum just for the operation and you're gonna be on meds the rest of your life, too Because it's a foreign body and there's always a potential for infection and thrombosis and blood clots
[09:27] Consider this look at all the people and industries that make a buck if you have a knee replacement You have the consultations before surgery all the lab tests and radiology the surgery nursing care after surgery doctor visits after discharge physical therapy home health care visits then you've got braces crutches medicines and Pharmaceuticals however if you have stem cells and it works and most of the time there is at least a big improvement You don't have any of those costs. Oh and don't forget a knee or hip surgery is not forever They claim 10 to 15 years You got to go through the whole thing all over again and the second or third time around your bones and the affected area of attachment Are much more fragile and thus there's more risk and chance of failure I repeat as long as you have an artificial prosthesis in your body
[10:13] There is a risk of infection because it is a foreign substance and your body does not like foreign substances but yet in the US alone surgeons perform more than 600,000 knee replacements and 330,000 hip replacements last year in 2018 in other words a million major joint replacement surgeries a year And what's a million joint replacement surgeries times? 25,000 bucks a pop pun intended 25 billion dollars, so let me ask you this how many doctors hospitals and pharmaceutical companies want to see big numbers like that fade away Oh, and we haven't even mentioned the billions and billions of dollars spent on arthritis treatments and heart conditions up in the states So bottom line do you think that the medical establishment up in the states has any reason to drag their feet on approving?
[11:03] Umbilical placenta and other types of mesenchymal stem cells. I wonder well not really Anyway, since that show I did about six months ago talking about all that and giving out some really good vetted information on where to Get the least expensive treatments from the highest quality clinics and practitioners Well as you might expect some listeners took that advice and now the reports are coming back Some listeners made the trip south of the border and did the stem cell thing and right now I'd like to read you some of the emails that are coming in All right first this one comes from a very cool and smart Canadian lady who came to one of my expat insider seminars about a year and a half ago She says hi Johnny just had hip stem cells and an IV a dream body in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico All right me Johnny here. By the way, that's one
[11:49] I highly recommend when I'm going to myself with my family members at least one of which one with the severe arthritis is coming along Reluctantly because his doctor told him it probably won't work That is is arthritis doctor up in Chicago who's got him on something like seven very expensive medications Some of which keep him in a day is half the day or so my other brothers and sisters and mothers say by the way He's only coming down because we convinced him It would be a nice vacation with the family in a nice warm tropical place by the beach and That he won't have to pay out of his pocket for the treatment We talked it over in the family's gonna kick in now He could afford it But that was still the big stumbling block and really the only way to get him over that hump was to make him an offer He couldn't refuse so you see he's the perfect example of a guy who would probably be a great success story with stem cells
[12:37] But he's got his own doctors that he's permanently tied in with back in Chicago who are poo poo in the idea or give them Negative vibes on it. He's a guy who completely trusts his doctors And would never think to investigate these things himself just like probably 80% or more of the American population You know the average guy's got an idea in his head that the word of your doctor is like talking to God and if insurance Doesn't want to pay for a procedure. They're definitely not gonna want to dig into their pocket for it But back to Mel's email. She says Johnny. I just had hip stem cells and IVs had dream body Thanks so much for letting me know about them as I'm writing this It's been about four hours since I had the treatment and the pain in my hip is down to One-half of its previous severity really loved the whole experience. I didn't feel a thing no pain with the needles either
[13:27] They're so professional and detail-oriented here. It's hard to believe However, my doctor in La Ranche, Canada told me I needed an immediate full hip replacement My new doctor at dream body, however looked at my MRI and said there's no way I need a hip replacement at all Johnny I'm coming back next year and bringing my husband with me He's got a bad shoulder and next time we'll be doing the stem cells with him then she says by the way I like porta vieta, but it's way too hot for me. Love the beach though. Hope all is well with you Also, hope to see you next year again Thanks so much for your own research on the stem cell things and the stem cell folks You most likely saved my hip and my health Alright meet Johnny now that email came four hours after she had the treatment
[14:13] Which was a simple IV drip in some stem cell injections in to the site that was damaged. That would be her hip Then a couple of days passed and she sent this email She says hello, Johnny I promised to keep you posted today is the third day after my stem cell treatment and every day I'm able to walk with less and less discomfort. It's amazing how quickly this stuff works Finally, I had a full night's sleep. It's the first full night's sleep in two years Then she says the placenta stem cell injection site is a bit uncomfortable to touch but no real discomfort She said I'm going home today By the way, John I mentioned this before but it's way too hot for me here with thunder and lightning all night again Quite beautiful though. Anyway, I'm thrilled with my results so far stem cells really do work and fast, too
[14:59] She says the people are fantastic here. Even my driver. Is it a light? Take care Johnny and thanks a million again. This is a lifesaver for me. Don't worry I'll keep you posted and keep me posted. She did then she sent me this email about a week and a half later She said hi, Johnny told you I keep you posted It's been 14 days since my stem cell treatments and I'm happy to report that I'm already 80 percent pain-free I've been dealing with hip issues for over 20 years and this past few days have been nothing short of remarkable already I'm walking without a limp and can walk up the stairs unaided I still feel a little discomfort But after being told that it will take three to six months to see a real difference I'm totally gobsmacked at the change in my level of pain. I really can't believe it
[15:46] I'm able to sleep through the night now as well, which was something I haven't been able to do for years Due to pain every time I moved so I'm so glad I decided to go to a dream body and Porto Vallarta Which is really called Nuevo Vallarta to get these treatments. I really have to say the people here are fantastic They went out of their way to make sure I got everything I needed. It was a pleasure I really wanted for nothing I did have an injection to my top half of my hip and thigh and also an IV for extra help just to let you know But the fact is at 68 years old. I'm feeling like I used to in my 30s every day I feel I'm actually healing Remember it when you'd hurt yourself as a kid and every day you'd feel a little better and a little better That's what's happening to me in my hip. Not only that the surprise is that some other stuff in my body is healing, too
[16:37] I had a pretty bad crunching sound when I moved my head from side to side before That too has also diminished around 50% Also the dark spots on my hands a hereditary thing I think on my mom's side are fading by the week. I never expected that I can't wait to see what else happens and what else starts to heal by the way before I left Canada for my Treatments, I made a list of all the things in my body that were bugging me I gave them a rating from 1 to 10 I did this as a baseline to judge my own treatments and the effects of the treatments I intend to assess my progress over the next three months based on my initial rating so that it seems less Subjective as for my hip so far. The pain has gone down 80% and it's only two weeks, Johnny
[17:24] Please tell your family and everyone on your show that stem cells are nothing short of miraculous as far as I can see Having been assessed by my doctor and physiologist in Canada as needing an immediate full hip replacement as soon as possible back in January 2019 I'm pleased to report that I won't be needing that operation now all Thanks to you doing that podcast on stem cells I've been given a whole new opportunity in my senior years and I can't wait to visit Guatemala next year again and participate in Your seminar as a repeat offender for the second time I hadn't been down sooner because I was worried that I would be unable to walk with my hip issues But now I know I'll be just fine Many thanks again, Johnny. We're so very lucky to get all that information you gave us Johnny. You're well
[18:10] She uses the a word. Yep. It's that a word again Alright and a big thanks for that Mel and I know you'll be keeping us posted with the good bad and the ugly as things move Anyway, there you have it a nice follow-up and hopefully a very happy ending to a very painful and debilitating condition Oh, and by the way, what's the one I watched Joe Rogan's podcast. Have you seen that? I don't care about the sports guys the interviews But he has a lot of scientific types on there, too Pretty interesting and I just heard him mentioned maybe a week and a half ago that he went down to the stem cell clinic For some cartilage and ligament damage. I think was his knee He did that after being told by his US doctors that soon enough he'll be needing a knee replacement Oh, no, he thought he'd heard about that stem cell stuff He even had a three-hour podcast on it and now some months later. He says it's absolutely returned to normal
[19:01] It's got no pain at all. No prosthetic replacement necessary Speaking of that three hour long stem cell podcast. Well, you know who you had on One of the guests was Mel Gibson He and his 90-something dad have done the stem cell thing along with Mel not the same Mel who wrote the email by the way He had another guy on the pioneering US doctor from Texas who developed the technique The guy's got more than 50 published scientific papers in first-rate scientific journals and he's got a big stem cell clinic in Texas Of course, like he said in the States, it's still experimental Which is why he has a branch of his clinic in Panama or he does the very high-powered good stuff By the way, if you want a really nice packet of information the one I gave Mel about six months ago Send me an email the expect files at gmail.com and I'll send it right off to you
[19:50] And remember I get absolutely no Renumeration for giving out this information to you The fact is I just hate the idea of people having to undergo surgery when it's not necessary Because you know, I'm a chicken at heart and deathly afraid of surgery myself. So you could say I'm being a little selfish It's in my own best interest to investigate this stem cell stuff and I say so what to me It's kind of or even better than a health insurance policy Speaking of insurance alas insurance companies won't pay for stem cell treatments that unless they're considered routine procedures up in the states So that means treatment with bone marrow stem cells is okay insurance will pay for that But as mentioned earlier bone marrow stem cells are in no way as efficient as the ones they're using in the clinics outside of the states
[20:37] But maybe just maybe that could be the saving grace for getting it approved up in the states because obviously The only ones that stand to gain besides the patients if stem cell treatment using umbilical and placental cells get approved up in the states Would be insurance companies when you think about it It's a no-brainer instead of shelling out for heart stents transplants and bypass surgeries hip knee and joint replacements, too If insurance companies started covering stem cell treatments Imagine the billions of dollars insurance companies could save if the treatments were approved But the question is will they pass the savings on the consumers? What do you think? I'm thinking don't hold your breath Alright enough said about that But let's stay on the health care topic for a while You know every time I have an expat insider seminar
[21:23] I always have someone or a couple people from Canada and my upcoming seminar will be seminar number 17 And in all that time something like eight years I've never had one Canadian Attendee that said they liked their health care system In fact, they all had nothing but complaints about Canadian national health care and for some even most it was part of the reasons why they Wanted to get the hell out and move to Latin America And that's why I don't understand when I see people in the media saying that they love the Canadian health care system So much though. I have noticed one thing It's almost always people under 40 who are saying good things about the system because when you're under 40 You're still pretty much invincible aren't you so really I don't get it How come every single Canadian I've met face to face and not just the ones that have come to my seminar They tell me absolute horror stories about the Canadian national health system
[22:10] In fact a friend of this show a longtime listener who's an administrator in the Canadian national health care system And he tells me no doubt. It's a disaster, but it's his job and he's got a family to support Yep, he said Disaster and why wouldn't it be when it was based almost exclusively on the national health care disaster in England after all Canada used To be an English colony and even their coins and their money have the Queen's much younger better looking but still pompous mug on them Now here's something most people don't know I'm not a stranger to the British national health care system because I lived in England for a couple of years Went for my totally useless MBA over there It was a long time ago, but I still have some pretty good friends in the UK and one of them Just sent me this a little article about the British national health care service
[22:56] The NHS that only seems to have appeared in certain British newspapers and rags So I'll read part of it to you. The headline is our socialized health care record-long hospital waiting times It starts out by saying the NHS the British National Health Care Service leaders those in charge of the UK's Socialized health care have said that hospital waiting times have now reached Unprecedented record length. In fact, it says waiting times in all departments in England last month We're at their worst level since they began record-taking after World War two and this despite fluent bad weather being significantly lower in 2018 than years past One top NHS figure says this should be a wake-up call to everyone who wants to copy our system including the United States He goes on to say no amount of additional government funds will fix it
[23:45] He says that's been tried many times in the past but only increased the bureaucracy and waiting time Though the official line and PR department states that it's underfunding that causes all the problems in our health care system But that's just not true For example in the last 18 years spending on health care in the UK has more than doubled even after adjusting for inflation And the trend according to news source the independent will only get worse Then it says anyone who knows the UK's national health care horror stories should dissuade Americans from accepting any kind of single payer system Then it says according to Forbes magazine the National Health Care Service, which just celebrated its 70th anniversary on July 5th Is imploding rapidly and completely bankrupt and here are the facts right now
[24:32] It says nine percent of all physician posts are completely vacant leaving a deadly shortfall of eleven thousand five hundred doctors Doctors don't want to work for the national health care system neither do nurses right now. It says in the UK. They're short 42,000 nurses meanwhile in the United States nearly all states report. There will be a surplus of nurses by 2030 Then it says national health care nurses are quitting in droves taking supermarket positions Because they say stacking shelves comes with better hours benefits and pay that according to a recent report in the Journal of London Economics and as one might imagine the shortage of medical providers is what's causing long waiting times in May of 2018
[25:17] It says four point three million people were on waiting lists for surgery a ten-year high Then it says in a recent analysis that covered just half of Britain's hospitals 30,000 patients died in 2018 while waiting for treatment that hadn't been performed yet Not only that it says in June of 2018 NHS in England said it would discontinue coverage of 17 operative procedures including tonsillectomies and Arthroscopic procedures for knees and joints in other words if you need those procedures You'll either have to pay a hundred percent out of your own pocket or buy your own additional private health care insurance Or don't get it done Then it says patients in British hospitals are four times more likely to die than in US hospitals according to an analysis of outcomes from 2,000 surgeries conducted by researchers from the University College London
[26:06] Then it says according to the same study if you're a severely ill patient It's much worse with very sick Brits seven times more likely to die in a national health care UK hospital then very sick patients with similar conditions in private US hospitals All right there you have it and my take you know I really think it's a great idea to cut the middleman out of health care That would be the insurance companies because according to stats they skim off up to 30% of the dough you pay for your plan And I also really like the idea of cutting out big pharma who've got all of Congress in their pockets And you know big farmers into price fixing and hate generics So then as far as national health care or socialized medicine you cut out the insurance companies in big pharma man You could cut health care bills in half or more, but the real problem is government
[26:51] National health care is national meaning the government's running it now I ask you if you can think of any single department division or bureau in government That isn't a complete in disaster. You let me know and I'll do a John McAfee Maybe I won't go that far look at the VA a complete disaster the Department of Education Iraq the FDA the CIA the FBI the military They all need to be flushed down the toilet with the rest of the turds Meanwhile you got burnt down Bernie and the rest of the dopes calling for national health care. Yep It'll come but they won't use it Personally, I think it's a great idea as long as government doesn't run it, but they will So how's that plan B coming south? You've been listening to the expat files living in Latin America If you need some help with your own plan B
[27:38] We can schedule a one-on-one phone or Skype consult Just send me an email the expat files at Gmail dot com And if you want to get on the waiting list for my next week-long expat insider seminar in Central America Where you're guaranteed to get a two to five year head start on your plan B Send me an email the expat files at Gmail dot com. No spamos Please