Posts Tagged ‘health insurance’

Challenge

The health care challenge is to make medicine answer to us. Engage and question the status quo, laying the groundwork to address both the success and failures of modern medicine. Right now the FDA, CDC, pharmaceutical industry, and health insurance companies are the planetary bullies. Comply with their rules or be punished, and they have repeatedly enforced severe penalties.

Policies

They have caused distress by enforcing policies that take away our First Amendment rights, such as freedom of speech. You can not use the word cure if you are outside the medical syndicate. Every time you comment on some procedure that is outside the standard practice you have to have a disclaimer after the informative text.

What next short of tackling you when you do not line up for a vaccination. The practices have made victims out of citizens living in the land of freedom. With the Internet we have ways of using electronic means to support our quest for health information. We want truth in labeling on pharmaceuticals, and real solutions to health challenges.

Our Role

We must turn up the heat and get beyond the Pollyanna view that health care is working for our well being.  We need an open forum where we track, analyze, and partner with our health care providers. We must take the initiative, because it will not come from the participating organizations. We need to get down to business and get out of our comfort level.

It is healthy to question a health care system, that has demonstrated a major disconnect from common sense solutions. The understanding that diet is the most important component to healing has seemed to have evaded the medical establishment. The one thing they have done is disabled any real reasonable dialog.

 Outcome

Can we hold them accountable for pitching drugs over vegetables? The doctor patient relationship must change. It is time that we alert them to what they have become, a ploy of both the pharmaceutical and health insurance industry. The health care challenge is to get the provider to listen to the public.

Healthcare

Public or private healthcare in America isn’t the answer. We keep trying to get it right, waiting for the upside. Day in, day out people are facing some tough issues, with the growing number of the walking infirmed, we see a world like never before. From hospital mistakes, to deadly drugs, with a rising array of diseases and physical ailments, the medical establishment is ill prepared to treat what they do not understand.

Pharmaceutical

From the hormone replacement scandal to recommendations of using margarine instead of butter to control heart disease, the staggering truth is that the missing ingredient in treatment and recommendation is an understanding of human health. What doctors don’t know can cost you your life. Most of the time prescriptions do not benefit you. Pain pills are colored red, because that color produces a lowering of perceived pain.

Screenings

The secret is out, you can go for all types of health screening, and the test may not benefit you. When prescribing drugs for a deteriorating condition without addressing the original problem you usually compound the problem. Just look at what antibiotics do when given at the rate they are prescribed.

Lifestyle Issues

When people are given the choice of a one day procedure or a long term exercise program, and diet modification most pick the procedure. Every year thousands of patients are frightened by the diagnosis that they get, a somber medical professional usually alerts you to all the dangers of the condition. Even if you walked into the office feeling o.k., you will be slated for a lifetime of toxic drugs, surgery, and aggressive treatment if you are found to one of many possible conditions.

Public or Private Insurance

Public or private insurance will not provide better medicine or change a disease based health care system into something else. The medical system needs rehabilitation, with its disappointing performance and limited knowledge of true healing. Public or private we are screwed as a nation. An overhaul of the pharmaceutical based health care system will mean some real changes that would guarantee a healthy nation.

Lifestyle

What is needed is a new way of thinking. One that realizes that a dynamic approach which takes lifestyle and weight management seriously will change the health care climate. It is clear that America must tackle the problem of obesity first before thinking about how to solve the health care crisis.

Prevention

One of the most important steps in any health care options, is that people take resposibility for their health. Health is a collaborative effort that includes the patient, not just the doctor and pharmacy. Looking ahead the way to create health is by eating healthy food, and being active. Healthy weight loss isn’t hype, but the foundation for good health. Food is more than simple indulgence, it positively affects metabolism and overall health.