Regarding THE NEWS ARTICLE: 2012-06-28 Mental illness claims continue to rise in federal public service. (Health insurers – financial interests – employee work days lost to depression.)
If insurers can see the link between mercury fillings and depression (plus other mental health), they will bring a financial interest to the efforts to stop the use.
The numbers are almost unbelievable:
- The steady rise of disability claims related to mental illness in Canada’s public
service continued last year and accounted for a historic 48 per cent of all
claims filed.” - “. . the same problems with absenteeism exist in the private sector — where mental
health claims are predicted to hit 50 per cent of all claims by 2014.”
The full article is at: 2012-06-28 Mental illness claims . . .
Mercury is a neuro-toxin. Mercury fillings are closely associated with depression (the number one mental illness).
I contacted the organizations mentioned in the article. I noticed that it made me feel happy doing so.
Hey! It gets better. This came in reply: “Sandra, Thank you for this information. I will examine it with real interest. If there is something I can add to the discussion making the case for change, I certainly will do so. I appreciate you reaching out to me. Best, Bill”
If you have a health insurance plan please consider sending a letter (template below). YOU have a financial stake!
The companies and governments will cut back on health coverage if the costs continue to trend upwards. Stopping the use of mercury dental fillings will have a very positive effect, not only on health, but on programme costs.
LETTER SENT TO INSURERS (A TEMPLATE TO COPY, PASTE AND CHANGE)
SENT: July 9
SUBJECT: RE: Newspaper article, Cost of insurance claims for rising rates of mental illness. Feedback.
TO: Sun Life
Dear Gloria,
Insurers and employers are looking for solutions to rising rates of mental illness for a number of reasons, not least of which is the financial cost of the claims on health insurance. (Link to newspaper article is appended.)
You can achieve significant reduction in mental illness by addressing this one CAUSE,
“silver fillings” or “dental amalgam” which is really 50% mercury. Mercury is the most poisonous of all the elements. The evidence is overwhelming:
- Stop the use of, and
- remove them.
THE SCIENCE:
A single “best source” (from what I’ve seen) is http://www.iaomt.org/ (the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology).
Their “Featured Articles” are foot-noted:
- The Case Against Amalgam addresses neurological effects.
http://www.iaomt.org/articles/files/files193/The%20Case%20Against%20Amalgam.pdf - Other articles may also attract your attention.
The IAOMT “Video Library” includes
- Neuron degeneration
- Smoking Tooth
Regarding the newspaper report, June 28, Mental illness claims continue to rise in federal public service:
A large part of “mental illness” is depression.
Mercury is a neuro-toxin, it causes depression. (Dentists have the highest suicide rate among the professions.)
Health can be restored when the CAUSES of ill health (poisons) are removed.
There needs to be a concerted effort:
- Dental Colleges should not be teaching the use of dental amalgam.
- Dentists should stop inserting them.
- We are badly in need of dentists who are trained in “safe removal”.
- Medical practitioners require training to be able to identify mercury poisoning. The norm: it goes un-diagnosed.
- Toxicologists need to step up to the plate and help out.
- De-toxification following removal is extremely important, but not well understood.
Canada is lagging behind other countries. The use of mercury fillings is banned in some northern European countries and in Thailand. The U.S. has accomplished a decline in use of 30%. Canada will become a dumping ground for product they won’t use in the U.S.
Canadian failure to ban mercury fillings contributes to escalating rates of mental illness. The poisoning is slow, invisible and pernicious.
Older employees have often had mercury off-gasing and accumulating in their bodies for decades.
Young employees have had low-level mercury poisoning since conception. Mercury from mothers’ amalgams crosses the placental barrier. And it deposits in fatty tissue (the breast). Infants start dosing of mercury in utero and continue through breast milk. Mercury is still used as a preservative in some vaccinations. In the next round, children receive their own mercury fillings to add to the accumulating body burden.
The synergistic effects of more poisons in our lives are shown by science and now by rates of disease, illness and developmental problems.
The science on the IAOMT website speaks to the link between neuro-toxicity of mercury fillings and mental health. Large numbers of people will testify to the recovery of cognitive functioning and mental health experienced after the removal of mercury fillings.
Citizens held a “Mercury Jamboree” in Saskatoon in March. Dentists from the IAOMT and a risk-analysis expert presented the science. The evidence against putting mercury into our mouths is so overwhelming, the off-gasing of mercury has been demonstrated time and time again – – it is at once tragic and comedic that in this Information Age we continue to put mercury into our bodies and the environment.
Removal of mercury means you’ll remove a significant part of the market for anti-depressants.
Removal of cause means that people do not have recurring health problems. (Mercury poisoning affects the brain, and other organs, too.)
Please call if I can answer questions. Or, you may be interested – – there is a file of information on the blog www.sandrafinley.ca.
I hope this information will be helpful in some way to your efforts. It is possible to reduce the incidence of mental illness by stopping one of the causes, mercury fillings.
Best wishes,
Sandra Finley
- Reference news article: Mental illness claims continue to rise in federal public service. 2012-06-28 Mental illness . …
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(July 7 – 9) I CONTACTED AND SENT INFORMATION TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS NAMED IN THE ARTICLE:
- Disability Insurance Board of Management
- National Joint Council, Public Service Health Care Plan Partners, Executive Committee, Union-Management Relations Committee
- TREASURY BOARD, Review of Disability Plans, http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbs-sct/cmn/contact-eng.asp. Email them from the web-page.
- Bill Wilkerson, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health (1998-2008)
Web: www.mentalhealthroundtable.ca - SunLife Canada
- Great West Life Assurance Company Corporate Head Office, Winnipeg, 204-946-1190, Group Claims.
- Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc.
Vancouver Service Centre (Looks after all the claims). Telephone: (604) 737-9384. - CUPE National Ottawa ON (613) 237-1590 Director of Research, Anthony Pizzino.