Honest Holistic Scientific Health Care Re-form
Care of health nature-ally
Care of health has been idiotically skewed toward a perverse idol worship of the modern medicine man, the DOCTOR. No longer a personal experience and responsibility, care of health is now intimately involved with the cold steel of an industry awash in self-interest, greed, corruption, and hidden agendas. No end is in sight for the ills of modern man; we don’t even pretend to see an end game, for the industry perpetuates the game to extremes of which the vicious cycle of health care hurts the one it aims to heal. The public at large is hoodwinked into the dogma of the official line and people, or shall we say patients, dare not cross that line for fear of the doctor’s wrath. We turn our keys over to the doctors and breath a sigh of relief as we abdicate personal responsibility and accountability knowing of course that the “expert” is now in charge and will tell us what to do.
What he tells us to do will focus on the symptom and will not address the root cause. What to do will be dosed or surgical or will be terminal, or may contain all three. What to do will not aim at prevention. And why should it? In our capitalistic system the doctor is a money maker like everyone else and abides by the rules: make profit, make more profit than the next guy, for this is your right and your privilege. In this system, if the doctor heals the patient and no longer needs to treat him, then the status of his career diminishes. He no longer is making his largest profits, he no longer has a waiting list of patients-to-be, and he no longer will be able to compete with other medicine men. In this system, to keep the patient in health does not pay. Hence, massive multitudes of sick people accruing astronomical medical bills firing the kiln of interconnected health care costs until the oven overheats and nothing whole is made nor left.
Health care reform as we know it has two main goals: one, to get each and every individual insured, and two, to reduce costs. Lets really look into and investigate these goals which seem so noble and worthy on the face of it. Since, in the view espoused here, the latter will make the former goal shift into a new focus through our investigation, let’s deal with the money side, costs, first in this discussion.
The question to ponder, to dream about, to look deeply in and around, thinking as absolutely open-mindedly as possible is: how do we lower health care costs? If we only look at our current ways, our present system of health care, we limit ourselves, box ourselves in and will not discover if there are other ways to approach health care. Perhaps our system itself is the root cause of the escalating and exorbitant costs of health care. Unless we ponder all our imaginations can come up with, we will lack the creative fortitude to re-form.
So, how do we lower health care costs? Why do health care costs reach such expensive levels that employees and employers cannot afford them?
Health care is designed overwhelmingly by the “experts”: doctors, politicians, and health care business executives. It is not difficult to see that these “experts” depend on each other for their livelihoods. The incestuous policy making of these experts has been written about and studied enough for me to need not extrapolate or cite here. Short to say there is a conflict of interest in the very same experts who create health care policy! This root problem must be changed to re-form.
How do we create a health care system that will not reflect the authors need to make profits and get elected and reelected? How do we create health care that has a ring of truth to it – to care for the health of the people? In our current system, the expert’s inherent conflict of interest cannot be avoided. It is how our politicians get elected and legislation for the doctors and the industry executives get written and made into law. So where do we turn? Universities? They too are part of the incestuous club of back scratchers. This too has been shown and need not be taken up here. Lay persons? Would they know enough, have enough knowledge to make intelligent decisions? Doubtful. And might they also have self interest as a primary motivator?
Well what about a consortium of all the above? Would a balanced group of individuals from varying sectors of society provide checks to the conflict of interests inherent in this group?
Perhaps we need to explore letting society make its own health care policy; a true free market industry where the market demand creates the product without the interference from government regulations. Do not dismiss an idea such as this simply because it is not of present thinking or ways. Look very deeply into it, map out the path of this hypothetical re-formation and like a good chess player anticipate the moves as far out as you can see. Often what seems at first and immediately reckless and destructive, will turn out efficient, safe, and extremely productive and constructive after the initial birthing and growing pains have subsided.
People in a free market act. People in a spoon-fed regulated government market listen and obey and give up their power. Our government regulated market has helped make our citizens fat and unhealthy, sick and lazy. Our government food pyramid has been shown a fallacy, our medical cures do not exist even after billions of research dollars, the drugs we are prescribed hurt and kill us, and the foods we eat are regulated to be poisoned and modified which makes us unhealthy. The air, water, and land we breathe, drink and eat from, are poisoned and dying from the food industry among others. We are fed TV screens twenty four hours a day everywhere which ask to be used and watched and we listen, watch and get “entertained”, give up our independent thinking as we are radiated while watching advertisements which convince us that health is found outside ourselves. Reform what is on our screens and reform the masses.
How about creating a federal campaign, if we have to have government involved, to educate the masses to think independently and to discover the vast wealth of health to be found outside our current health care system and motivate people to be responsible for their own health. Of course this is a pipe dream that would ruin the profits of the status quo which government is a part of. Even still, if we put all our money into this kind of campaign it would work and re-form.
The true cost reduction and savings in health care is barely mentioned in this current cyclical debate. Nothing would reduce costs more than not needing these services because the population is healthy and well. Of course this would ruin corporate profits and would not be tolerated let alone considered!
Begin to educate five year olds in kindergarten and carry on through out their years in school. If we must have schools why not have healthy schools? Why do we have such unhealthy cafeterias complete with food that is toxic, and environments that are toxic, and a paradigm of man made chemical toxic living? We can create a generation of healthy people if we attempt to and see the long view.
Meanwhile we can give sick people in hospitals HEALTH food and educate them about healthier ways of eating and living. How about a new philosophy of parenting which fosters, supports and values breast feeding as the best start of a healthy life? Even better, how about the huge savings on giving birth responsibilities back to the mother and women and keep the birthing in the home where costs are cheap and the environment actually boosts the immunity of the new born? When we have a population of individuals taking responsibility for their health we will finally eliminate the root cause of health care spirally costs: unhealthy people!
Yet let me remind readers that a health care system without unhealthy people is an industry failure in our business model! No profits can be made without need or demand. An entire industry would need to create new jobs. Of course the logical shift would be towards a well-care industry: caring for well people just like the well baby visit to the doctor.
People would now turn to the well-care industry for maintenance just like they do with their cars. We schedule our car visits precisely so we do not wait until the car breaks down to get it fixed. We wash it and make sure it gets good gas and good oil to burn daily. We keep tires rotated and replaced and we change out filters and belts. In short, we maintain the machine so it will not break down. If we neglect this maintenance we suffer the consequences.
Now the key with our car’s maintenance is that we do not treat one part while hurting the other. We would never tolerate our mechanic damaging the hood while working on the engine. Nor would we allow the transmission to be hurt while we fix the radiator. Or break the windshield wipers while fixing the headlights or radio. Yet this absurdity is exactly what we do with our bodies. We destroy our lungs while treating our hearts! We poison and destroy our livers while treating joint and muscle aches and pains and headaches! We go psychotic while fixing our depression! Ad infinitum…all drugs have side effects that hurt us. This means escalating health care costs and it must end to bring costs down.
If we must spend tax dollars, let the government spend on a national juicing, fasting and a raw food program, organic only, that would motivate people to participate by offering free health care for those who achieve optimal health: optimal weight, optimal blood work levels, optimal cardio fitness, optimal strength and stretch, optimal mental health and fitness, etc. THIS IS A NO BRAINER WIN/WIN EQUATION! Once people are in optimal health, free health care is giving almost nothing away, it costs nothing! When folks are healthy, like myself, we can easily go without health care because we do not need it nor use it as I haven’t for twenty five years. How much savings is that? Oh, add into that all the savings of my two sons, ages four and eight, having never had a hospital stay, never receiving vaccinations, having no need for a doctor and never had insurance. Yet both are as healthy as can be.
Meanwhile as the unhealthy work in the government program toward optimal health they will learn first hand, through experience, the drug free approach to a healthy lifestyle and body. We would rid ourselves of all kinds of ill conditions like allergies, asthma, auto-immune dis-eases, cancers, heart dis-ease, and more.
People would learn that our bodies are a system based in health through balance of energies, proper PH levels, interrelated equilibrium of regeneration agencies and the proper balance of mental perspectives that keep us stress free.
If, as is clearly shown, ninety five percent of our health care is from stress related conditions, then we must address this primarily and most stringently.
We know the stressors, they have been documented, now think how they not only cause health care costs to rise, think how they also lower productivity in the work place and cause extreme depletion of resources and profits. Perhaps that will motivate us to change our ways if nothing else.
If all of this seems too easy and logical that is because it is. It is easy to find studies on the multitudes of stressors that keep us unhealthy, from physical to environmental to mental. Our health care debate ought to be directed towards the elimination of these stressors that cause the ninety five percent of all ill health conditions! To do less is foolery.
The studies on drug free approaches to health care are abundant, from homeopathy to chiropractics, to acupuncture, meditation, organic raw whole foods, juicing, fasting, raw food diets, hands on healing, prayer, dance, yoga, etc.
Once these ideas are debated and actions are taken and we create a healthy population, health care costs will be extremely low and our desire to have each and every individual covered will be easy due to the rare need for health care and insurance thereof.
A final warning: these health care reforms will eventually be so effective that the population will need to fill the vacuum that doctor, hospital and pharmacy visits consume us with now.
To avoid this dilemma keep the health care debate focused on its current list of concerns that do not even pretend to get to the root cause but only encourage the reorganizations and rearrangements of the systems that presently keep us unhealthy.
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