There Is No Money In Healthy...
Ryan...
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
Per American our government spends an estimated $8,000+ per person on health care. Almost 20% of the national budget is allocated to health. Americans with insurance pay average yearly premiums amounting to $13,000 per family. Lastly the "legal" drug trade shows an overwhelming 12% profit increase every year amounting to well over $200 billion annually. Fixing us, means losing all that.
Quick Facts
Price Hikes
Like many other drugs today Claritin hit the market patent in hand. Over five years of the existing patent, that simple little pill's cost rose 4x more than inflation amounting to a 50% increase. Thirteen times the price sailed until the patent dissolved.
Drug companies say these hikes are to fund extensive R&D. Drug companies say this is normal.
Self-insured
Americans not relying solely on the government health care spend on average $14000 per family on premiums each year. And this rises by 14% per year.
Old Folks
The poorest, most hard hit get charged the most. Medicare patients are charged more than "preferred" customers, HMO's, or other items organizations in bulk. On average old folks pop six different pills a day costing $9000 annually.
Drugged Up Babies
I'm not an "expose" writer. In fact I hate leaving references or playing the fact game because everybody does research and crunches the numbers until they add up the way they want them. But regardless if these numbers I researched were 100% accurate or not, it doesn't make them any less scary. Its still a trend. And this undeniable trend says that keeping us doped up, old, and under "care" is much more profitable than any "cure" every will be.
The first time we are taught how to use drugs wasn't the cool older neighbor kids. The first time we were dealt drugs and told how to use them was the first time we are shown the food pyramid.
From first grade on, we are officially junkies with addicted dealer teachers, misinformed government suppliers and manufacturing cartels lining the pockets of FDA officials.
Monopolies Are Only Illegal If You Don't Have Money
What do you think a patent is? Yup a monopoly signed off on by the government marketed by the FDA. And here is the kicker. A slight change nearing the end of a particular drugs patent can guarantee another patent directly after. Properly marketed this drug looks like a brand new bag, but in reality its the same old shit.
Drug manufacturer spend all their time becoming more creative at extending patents and repackaging bullshit as opposed to finding a %#$#ing cure so we don't need the treatment at all.
Illness Subsidizer
Financially it is very profitable to keep us breathing. But at what cost...literally? The technical definition of living does not even require breathing under our own power and with the government being fed by drug corporation and our President hiring the guy who runs the FDA advertising how they hell can we ever expect to "LIVE, NOT JUST BREATH". Or worse yet, be breathed for.
The new Heath Care BS finally has allocated funds in place for prevention. But when you view the fine print the prevention is just a prevention from death, not from sick living. Nobody wants their income to die, and when sick people are your income it makes some folks a hell of a lot more money to keep Americans sick enough, but not so sick they die.
Healthy means you don't need a pill much if not all our lives. If healthy was really the goal of the nation CrossFit's would be the recommend insurance and Paleo would be the drug plan. Trainers would be Doctors, and boxes would be hospitals.
One day the grand canyon separating health, from treatment will be full. Sadly it will be full of all the trusting souls who thought the goal was health, when in reality there is no money in healthy. Money is maintenance.
Dynamic
Jerk
10x2 @ 70% 1RM
For Time:
"Nasty Girls"
Watch Original Here-If you never have, watch the last two minutes.
7-Muscle-Ups
10-Hang Power Cleans 95/135
50-Squats
3 Rounds
Post weight moved and time to comments.
one of the first CF vids I ever saw. think i may have cried WITH nicole. and just think...she and annie woulda had to do several of those m-ups over again in competition. definitely nasty.
Posted by: k | July 25, 2011 at 09:58 PM
14:41m (pull-ups instead of muscle-ups)
sweet pic Ryan! :)
Posted by: HN | July 26, 2011 at 08:16 AM
13:33m
Posted by: vicki | July 26, 2011 at 08:31 AM
105
14:04 (m) PU instead of MU
Glad to be back..
Posted by: PJ | July 26, 2011 at 08:48 AM
12:20 (95lb HPC, 4MU/round)
Posted by: NP | July 26, 2011 at 09:15 AM
135
10:51 M chest to bar pull ups
Posted by: Franchise | July 26, 2011 at 09:50 AM
65 #
11:05 M ( Hollow rocks instead of pullups and dips)
Posted by: Carrie | July 26, 2011 at 10:17 AM
95 dy
12:45m
Posted by: holly | July 26, 2011 at 10:35 AM
9am...great job with strength this morning. Lots of improvement from round 1 to round 10. But we've gotta have a quick heart-to-heart about modifying.
Modification is part of the natural progression to mastering a movement, but when the modification prevents you from getting the most out of a wko or, worse yet, becomes the standard, somethin's gotta change. Improvement isn't achieved DURING WODs (at least not all of it) when you're focused on performing. It's in the extra "skills" time you put in outside of them...before or after class...at PCF or at home...thinking about and drilling technique. And that doesn't mean hours of extra time, but it does mean being consistent with the practice. There are lots of tools and resources (vids, Skills class, one-on-one w available trainers before and after class, other PCF-ers who are doing it!, etc.) here for you. Start with one goal and one tool. A little can go a long way, and I dig watchin' ya'll get better.
Posted by: k | July 26, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Love that original video...doesn't ever get old watching that!
Posted by: ASh | July 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM
135lb HPC
14:45 for time.
Does throw up time count????
Posted by: Bret | July 26, 2011 at 02:02 PM
80# jerk
DNF wod
Posted by: jen w | July 26, 2011 at 05:25 PM
110 jerk
12:48 m...3 mups per round
Posted by: Min | July 26, 2011 at 07:17 PM
90#jerk(6rnds only)
13:18...and one circus m-up. Never done this one before but realized earlier today that we have a ton more m-upers than the last time the team did it...and that's cool.
Kudos for stickin it out to the end #10. And no, Monica, the bird is not after you. ;)
Posted by: k | July 26, 2011 at 07:20 PM
95# jerk
14:32(m)
m = 14 c2b pus instead of mups
so jealous of all the mupers today :(
Posted by: runmelrun | July 26, 2011 at 07:57 PM
90# jerk
14:10 (m) 14 c2b pu
awesome to see all the ladies work those mups!
Kara you're a Nasty Girl! Min, great class :)
Posted by: Mo | July 26, 2011 at 08:26 PM
195jerk....
10:10
Posted by: jb | July 26, 2011 at 08:42 PM
14:52(m)-- 7 pullups instead of mups, 55 lb hangs
Great job on mups Min!!!!
A reminder of what PCF family is all about tonight...didn't think I was going to finish that WOD...I was exhausted before I started. The start of those last 50 squats were joined with feelings of regurgitation. Just as I was going to stop, Scotty stood directly in front of me, made eye contact with me and started counting reps and putting small goals in front of me...all while making sure my back was holding up. Then came Renee, pushing me thru and doing a few reps with me. And some cheering from Mo on the sidelines. 50 became 30, then 20, then 10, and done before the 15 min timer!! That is what family is all about!! Thanks guys!!
...and to top it off, I had to rush out to get home, so Renee cleaned up all my toys for me!!
Posted by: Mindy | July 26, 2011 at 08:43 PM
Nice work six-dirty class!!!
18:09(m) 14 pu for mups
Posted by: JN | July 26, 2011 at 09:04 PM
18:something
7 PUs for mups
Posted by: Shelly | July 27, 2011 at 11:13 AM