INDISPUTABLE FACTS

The CCTI-type system will no doubt be confronted with heavy criticism leveled by the special interest groups involved. It is nonetheless, difficult to understand how any reasonable person could honestly dispute the following facts:

1. The current health system has failed at the prevention of disease.

2. Millions of people are suffering, with tens of thousands dying prematurely on an annual basis.

3. Very few people enjoy vibrant health.

4. Better health is a very high public priority.

5. The average person continually experiences exposure to thousands of potentially harmful manufactured chemicals.

6. The extent of physical damage caused by such chemical exposures is unknown.

7. The application of yet more chemicals in the form of medication as a means for countering environmental chemical exposures is not the answer, nor is more surgery.

8. The true root causes of illness must be established before prevention can be successful.

9. All of nature's remedies should be reviewed as soon as possible for their potential health benefits.

10. Natural remedies (as much as possible) must be developed free from the motivation of profits; indeed, a large portion of these remedies might well be free.

11. The most advanced technology at our disposal must be fully utilized for the benefit of public health, and kept free from the controlling or influential forces of special interest groups.

12. Medical research and development must also be entirely free from influence or control by special interest groups.

13. The current medical industry possesses enormous power while the patient possesses very little.

14. There is little, if any, accountability of the medical profession.

15. There is a great redistribution of wealth in the United States, being channeled from the private sector into the medical industry. Medical industry sales per annum are now well over a trillion dollars, and unless and until, major changes take place, this shift in wealth will continue to escalate as major corporate conglomerates further assume ownership of the health care industry.

16. No system short of a national research system, such as that of a CCTI model, could conceivably possess the breadth, scope, strength, and control to be fully effective and successful.

17. Barring the development of a CCTI-type system, any future benefits to be realized from the natural, evolutionary results of a CCTI type operation will also be lost.

The medical industry must be rated in relation to what can be accomplished with all of the most advanced technology available. It cannot be allowed to compare its accomplishments only to accomplishments of the past which took place before the latest computer technology was available.

Joseph Califano, Jr. (1986, 10) believes that the health care system of the future will be unrecognizably different from today's world of medicine.

Special equipment required for a successful CCTI system, the supercomputer, is in its present state fully developed with off-the-shelf availability that would require no time lag or expensive research.

Real progress in changing mankind's ailing health will require optimal use of all available resources. In spite of all the amazing accomplishments of the computer in manufacturing, transportation, communication, business, aerospace, and military defense, the computer of the future will surely become best known and appreciated for its contribution to the health of the human race.

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