Any audiophile who is on blood pressure medication

If you want REAL health care and have more than the run of the mill muscle pull, you will have to start paying the doc directly - out of pocket. The good ones don't take insurance. They don't have to as they have enough referrals to stay in business.
Free health care? You get what you pay for. Better get ready to start paying it yourself if you are serious about getting well.

Along with my meds that drag me down I have started taking naproxen, also known as aleve. This pretty much cures the drag me down effect for me.

I have a question for Larryx7, In country as India and I believe also in most countries in Europe, as long as your blood pressure is under 140/90, you are considered healthy. What's up with the 120/80 in the US ? Sounds like pharmarceutical companies along with the AMA and FDA have found the scared- crow-hot spot to push meds for huge profit.

From the January 6, 2000 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (which is hardly a friend of the pharmaceutical industry): "The overall unadjusted relative risk of death due to coronary artery disease was 1.17 (95% confidence interval, 1.14 to 1.20) per 10 mmHg increase in systolic pressure and 1.13 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.10 to 1.15) per 5 mmHg increase in diastolic pressure." This increase in mortality began with a systolic blood pressure of 125 mmHg and a diastolic blood pressure of 75 mmHg.

The comment by Cdc holds a lot of truth. When I first began practice in the early 70's, most health care was paid for just like your groceries. Consequently, market forces played the primary role in controlling the cost of the services just as it does in the price of groceries or any other competitive product. We took the first step toward a socialized system when third party payers started to appear in the delivery system. This divorced the cost of the service from the consumer. He no longer felt the true cost of the service anymore. With this development, over utilization has ,over the last 30 years, almost swamped our system. If we move to a total socialized system, the over utilization will force rationing which will affect those that need extremely expensive procedures and treatments. This has already started with the advent of HMO's but will accelerate exponentially as government becomes more dominant in the delivery system. This has the potential to create an Orwellian health care system which delivers care based on the perceived value of the recipient, ie, age,social status, etc. Sound crazy, just take a look at Washington right now.