We talked about how much money the lens manufacturers make. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year in revenue, from an illness that is manufactured by their very industry.
Doctors though, also benefit handsomely from towing the company line for lens manufacturers.
Let’s look at highlights of the full and disturbing story, from this PBS article:
WASHINGTON — Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million.
Those are among the findings of an Associated Press analysis of physician data released Wednesday by the Obama administration, part of a move to open the books on health care financing.
Topping Medicare’s list was Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen.
In the $3 million-plus club, 151 ophthalmologists — eye specialists — accounted for nearly $658 million in Medicare payments, leading other disciplines.
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Thanks goes to Magda for this article, a rather shocking (though not surprising) revelation about the profitability of your myopia.
Magda comments:
Isn’t it striking how the vision industry gets away with systematically and consistently ruining people’s vision and makes a fortune doing it? It’s simply amazing to me that there is no governing body neither inside the industry nor from outside installed to maintain ethical standards nor to openly promote the research and findings nor the process of natural rehabilitation. It’s really pretty baffling to me! A complete social disaster.”
And right she is.
Link to the Wall Street Journal original research.
Who makes the most money? Ophthalmologists. Who supports their education, and the product sales? Lens manufacturers.
Who tells you that myopia can’t be cured, that we don’t understand the cause (though clearly we do)?
Who claims that only their advice is the truth, and that only lenses or surgery can manage your eyesight?
Who tries to silence anyone who dares to suggest that myopia is manufactured illness?
You would be shocked at the level of anger I have gotten from ophthalmologists. The attempts of shutting me and this site down. If this was just another little online health scheme, why would they care so much?
Meanwhile, future generations are being raised on glasses and contact lenses. In some countries, well over half of the youth has never known natural eyesight past the age of 12. That is the tragedy of this system-wide state of malpractice.
If articles like this leave you frustrated at the state of affairs, and you want to help – you can! Repost this article, share the link, put it on your blogs and social media. Reach just a few people, it does make a difference!
