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Miami physician convicted in HIV therapy Medicare fraud is symptom of a flawed health care system.

This week, Miami, Florida area doctor Roberto Rodriguez was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $9 million back to Medicare after being convicted of committing fraud in submitting fraudulent claims for treatments supposedly provided to patients with HIV and AIDS. The physician recruited patients who were given these diagnoses and then enlisted to make the fraudulent claims for HIV drug infusions, in which multiple medical professionals were sharing in the profits from the Medicare payouts for these unneeded and non-existent treatments. This rather blatant scam is just one symptom of a medical system geared toward profit rather than fostering public health. In the area of HIV and AIDS treatment the disregard for the scientific method and natural immune enhancing therapies has been widespread, as documented by many independent HIV & AIDS researchers such as Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Dr. Peter Duesberg.

HIV tests have been shown to be unreliable at showing whether a person truly has an infection, and there is considerable doubt among many researchers as to whether HIV is really the cause of immune deficiency syndrome. Factors such as substance abuse, poor nutrition, infections with other types of pathogens, exposure to chemicals, and exposure to anti-retroviral chemotherapy drugs are all known to impair the immune system and sometimes foster a progression of illness that matches the symptoms of AIDS. With a lot of hype about HIV as an incurable deadly disease one would have expected it to spread more widely and be more deadly than it has been. Yet, the areas where HIV/AIDS has supposedly created the most misery and death are populations with high levels of drug abuse or malnutrition. It would appear that the materials believed to represent the presence of a retrovirus are harmless in healthy people, and that other factors are present which are damaging the immune system. If this is the case, then the focus of treatment would need to be on addressing the factors that contribute to immune breakdown – getting patients off of drugs, providing immune enhancing nutrition, promoting a healthy pH balance, and cleansing the body. Fostering a positive, empowering attitude, and clearing away any mental and emotional negativity (such as fear, anger, or guilt) would help restore health as well.

Thus, Dr. Rodriguez is not the only one defrauding AIDS patients… the medical establishment in general has pursued a misleading paradigm that wastes public funds on research and treatments that are applied based on dubious assumptions about AIDS and health care. Furthermore, while the fake HIV infusion treatments merely took the public’s money (from Medicare), many standard HIV and AIDS treatments have harmed the public’s health, with the doctors who have practiced these toxic treatments being lauded rather than prosecuted.