Former President of the United States Bill Clinton received quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2004. Four blocked arteries were propped open by inserting tubing, know as stents, into blocked arteries. According to cardiologists this is par for the course. This procedure is not a cure, it is a fix; a patch. Seen as a progressive disease it is treated by surveillance. There is no attempt to heal the body from what may be the underlying causative factors.

Is this the best in health care can offer?
Hereditary factors? Lifestyle factors? Heart disease? medication? Heart Bypass surgery? angioplasty, this is a rather typical progression. The costs for the procedures escalate.
Prices for these varied procedures can range from $7,000 to in some cases over $100,000. The care is invasive. There is no such thing as minimally invasive surgery. It is still major and intense. The public is involved in a game of wait and see, as people in need of healing, deteriorate and then told surgery is their only option.

A heart attack or myocardial infarction occurs when a plaque ruptures, allowing a blood clot to form. This completely obstructs the artery, stopping blood flow to part of the heart muscle, and that portion of muscle dies.

The cost of stents
Balloon Angioplasty with Stent Placement for Coronary Artery Disease

Actually there are “cures” for heart disease. There always have been. That does not mean that an individual may not eventually die because of heart failure. But it is possible to live in health without balloons, or mesh or the advanced options using mesh with stainless steel – inserted into your arteries to prop them open. Start now, avoid waiting until the prognosis is poor.

The physical heart resides in the chest cavity, but it is not in a vacuum. When you are comfortable with your heart, that joy translates throughout your life.

The public can let the medical profession that we want healing, not management. The public can let the medical profession that we want healing, not lifetime prescriptions drugs.