Re: [cancercured] Evenstar 12000 is light years ahead to VIBE Machine- prices

$6,000 is a lot of money and it clearly is wise to thoroughly examine anything before plunking down a large wad of cash for something.

An example just happened in my world. My wife, recovering, or trying to, from a broken neck ( 2nd. Cervical) was advised, by the Neurosurgeon, to use a 'Bone Stimulator'. The one recommended was over $3,500 if Medicare approved it for this use, which it didn't, and over $5,000 paid for personally or by insurance.

I got the "if it were my family member, I would want them to have every opportunity to get well". Smells of perhaps...............a 'kick-back'?

However, when I examined the statistics and, one needs to really look because they are often hidden in medical mumbo-jumbo making the study more positive than it really is, I found there was a 15% improvement over the control group not using the 'gadget'. That means that 85 out of 100 do not benefit from the use of a $6,000 machine. There was no information about how much the 15% benefit other than that there was "more fusion" than in the control group. Additionally the 'gadget' will only last for approximately 420 actual uses.

We are about to borrow a different 'bone stimulator' from a nephew that recently did well after major surgery of the cervical area. His insurance company paid $5,000 for that one with $600 out of their pocket. We throw these $5,000 and $6,000 figures around as if they have no impact on we mortals.

Of course if one were to get real measurable benefit what price would you balk at and finally, does this mean that only the wealthy can benefit? I know a lot of people that could not drop $6,000 on anything let alone something with little evidence of benefit. What a system and we wonder why Health-Care in the richest nation in the world lags behind every other westernized nation and barely ahead of Mexico.

Joe C.

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