The Health Care Challenge
The healthcare 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.
They have caused distress by enforcing policies that take away our First Amendment rights, such as freedom of speech. You can’t 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 is next, tackling you down when you don’t vaccinate your children. 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.
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 healthcare 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.
Can we hold them accountable for pitching drugs over plants? 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. Our lives depend on this.
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