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What most people in America call “health care reform” has nothing to do with real health care.  What they refer to is actually quick fix idiocy.  Sure, doctors fix broken bones and other accident injuries but for the most part they perform operations/procedures and prescribe synthetic drugs to people that have not, and refuse to, take care of themselves by natural means.  Most of these people have been eating out at junk food restaurants for years and watching tv for hours a day!  They eat eggs w/cheese every morning and meat and potatoes at night.  They’ve been drinking unfiltered water, breathing smog while sitting in traffic and doing antibiotics to kill off infections created by their weakened immune systems and poor lifestyle habits.  Ask any of them how many books they’ve read about natural healing!  The answer will usually be zero.

Ok, now for the good news!  You can do as much holistic healing as you can possibly stand and most of it is cheap and/or free!  As the old cliche goes, “If you want to get something done, you’ve got to do it yourself.”  Right now you can read as many books on holistic healing as you want to.  Millions of people are already doing this!  You can also watch as many healing videos on Youtube as you want to…free!  Yea!  You can lean about the problem foods:  Wheat, dairy, meat, soy, corn and yeast.  You can buy a good natural pillow and develope a healthy neck:  http://www.vitalitymassage.net/millethullpillows.html  You can watch videos and participate in yoga exercises at home on your own floor.  You can meditate (yes, there are videos for that on Youtube as well) all freaking day long!  For $5 you can go and buy an enema bag and clean out your intestines every time you feel sickly from changing you diet.  You can hang out with healthy people by going to vegetarian, vegan, or raw food pot lucks.  (Most doctors are not living a healthy lifestyle!  Most have never gotten a massage or have even been to a health food store!)  You can find groups on Meetup.com or you can meet other healing folks at the health food store.  You can eat organic fruits and vegetables.  You can eat nuts and seeds, beans, seaweeds, fermented veggies, and the human grains (millet, quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat).   You can buy a cheap juicer and get started with that.  You can begin to connect with the divine and start to understand that everything is connected and that you are part of the source of all creation and that you are important if you want to be… you are beautiful if you want to be.  You can learn about plants, the real medicine, you know, those things created by God – not the pharmaceutical company! 

Hi there! I’m Brett Rodgers, owner of Vitality Massage in beautiful Asheville, NC. http://www.vitalitymassage.net I love my work as a massage therapist but I also do holistic healing of all kinds including holistic teaching consultations and coaching. Please see my site for information about all the modalities of holistic healing offered. Please also see my various millet hull and buchwheat hull body support products. I.E. Millet hull pillows, buckwheat hull back supports, and millet hull orthotics.
Thanks so much for your time!

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2009 is a crucial year. Promised economic recovery and health care reform legislation is the possibility of a significant financial commitment for mental health and addiction services and mental health care organizations to provide a concrete, achievable agenda: – The integration of services of primary care in Behavioral Health Settings: The project brings together Health Care Behavioral Health and Primary Care Organizations provides a bidirectional approach to care. The need for behavioral health services in primary care is widely recognized. But the integration of services in primary care settings, behavioral health, despite the fact that people with serious mental illness in order to have the worst mortality rates in the public health system is controversial. Therefore, mental health care organizations are actively improve single point of responsibility for continuity of care for this population disadvantaged. – Cost of support funding base, plus the excellence of service: people want and deserve quality services, but the high quality service depends on skilled employees. Low wages have created – and perpetuating – a recruitment, retention and quality of behavioral health crises. We need a workforce of qualified staff provides nationally recognized practice in organizations that live by the rule “If you don? Measure T, is it possible? T to improve. “For organizations with mental health care, health care reform is an opportunity to” carry equal “in public mental health services by the end of the second-class status of the Community Mental Health and Addiction Providers in America? s safety net of mental health .- federal funding of mental health and treatment solutions for the uninsured pay: The insured exceptional untreated mental illness associated with co-occurring disorders and addiction, there is no safety net. Government wants to cover policyholders have virtually disappeared, and federal provides universal coverage can be gradually expanded. We have a large number of people suffering from treatable mental illness and addiction in our first aid oppressed, prisons and streets, without access to services that may have to tackle, and are at work. We must stop denying our economy into productive taxpayers and waste of human life. – Eligibility for Social Security disability for people with addictive disorders: addiction is a long way from the days when you had to come from a lack of will exercised. Today there is a growing public awareness and acceptance of addiction as a chronic, relapsing condition that requires continuous monitoring and management, like other chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and yes , mental illness. If you accept the addiction as a chronic disease, so we need to ensure that people with disorders of disabled employees is permitted. – Fund to support investment by healthcare organizations to conduct in the field of information technology: We are talking of information and transparency of the service, but the behavioral healthcare organizations that move us to automate their clinical systems have no support, financing and service technique. We can not serve and that we continue to be marginalized. Health care reform and economic recovery is based on the diffusion of information and Behavioral health professionals rely must be included. – Promote research and education-based prevention practices: There are programs for mental health and drug prevention and education work. This includes research-based prevention initiatives that reduce the risk of serious emotional disturbances of childhood to take care of maternal depression, Nurse-Family Partnership Program, which is a series of benefits in line for a series of studies on mental health and First Aid – a test based literacy program for mental health. Now we need to adequately fund and support the dissemination of these interventions in communities across the country.

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The American Medical System is on its death bed, but government health care reform can never provide the cure.

Better grab your wallet and head for the hills when government proposes to “reform” anything.  The only hope for any effective and efficient reform lies in the Bible and with the church.

<b>The Business Model<br>

Is Broken</b>

The current system is pretty good at what we might call “body & fender” work.  But they are generally clueless about what’s going on under the hood and addressing the root causes of disease.  Here is a short list of the deficiencies:

1) A mechanistic view of the body underlies the system, treating a diseased organ in isolation, like the independent systems of an automobile.

3) Treatment of symptoms with drugs fails to address the underlying pathology.  Nutrition and natural healing techniques are typically suppressed.

4) Drugs usually have side-effects worse than the disease or its symptoms.

5) Costs are driven into the billions, with money wasted on marketing the alleged benefits of drugs to doctors and the general public.

All of this leads to skyrocketing costs and makes health care generally unavailable without so-called government assistance.  The failures of the prevailing business model are legendary and invite government meddling to “fix” the problem with <em>health care reform</em>.

<b>The Government Model<br>

Is Lethal</b>

We clearly need health care reform, but we’ll never get it from big government.  Government of course, presents itself as the cultural balm to heal all wounds.  Instead it is the cultural bomb to wound all heels — the vast majority that refuses to accept responsibility.  They expect the government to force somebody else to provide for their health, education and welfare.

The U.S. Constitution – flawed as it is – makes no provision for government health care.  More important, there is no provision for government health care in the Bible.

Thus, civil government has no business meddling in health care beyond punishing medical malpractice.  Anything more is usurping the social function of God and his church, which God will surely punish.

<b>The Biblical Model Of<br>

True Health Care Reform</b>

The Biblical approach addresses both the mode of healing and the method of delivery.

First, we must recognize the church as the God-ordained cultural institution of healing.  The words “salvation” and “salve” are derived from the same root.  We have seen how the government model and the business model of healing alike are terminal and beyond reviving.

New Testament elders have a similar responsibility for healing duties.  Even before consulting a doctor, a sick person is told to summon the elders to pray for him and apply medicinal oil (James 5:14). The operative Greek word is not chrio (annoint), but aleipho (apply).  This represents application of the best medical means of the day along with appeal to God as the Great Physician.  It is not simply a ceremonial anointing.

Thus, the church must reclaim health care as an aspect of Christian ministry.  When profit enters the picture, the best interests of the patient soon take a back seat.  Legalized (prescription) drug sales become the driving factor.  Civil government gets involved not for profit, but for power.  Health care is the proper domain of the church.  It is funded by tithes and offerings, so that no one is excluded for lack of means.

The church must gradually reclaim this lost ministry.  At least two things are required: 1) Elders must study to develop a doctrine of medicine so they can recognize quackery and guide their flock away from ineffective practice.  2) Individuals gifted in the healing arts must be funded by the tithe, possibly as part of the deaconate.

Proper mode of delivery is important, but the Bible also requires appropriate means of healing.  In general, this points toward abandoning risky drug “therapy” in favor of natural, plant-based remedies.  This is according to the pattern of Ezekiel 47:12 where – “Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

<b>For More Information</b>

For more information about the anti-Christian features of the U.S. Constitution visit http://www.america-betrayed-1787.com Dennis Woods is webmaster and also a political pollster and fundraiser in Oregon. Copyright: you may freely republish this article, provided the text, author credit, the active links and this copyright notice remain intact.”

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Because of the stranglehold the insurance companies have on Congress we may never see real meaningful health care reform in this country, unless we do it ourselves.  The people want it and the doctors and nurses want it.  The only culprit is the insurance industry.  So the solution is simple – let’s just cut the insurance industry out of the equation altogether.  Here is a plan on how this might be accomplished, simply by doctors and patients working together:

A lot of the cost in providing medical care comes from the need for doctors to cover themselves with malpractice insurance and also the costs associated with processing insurance claims for medical services.  A doctor who now has to charge $80 for an office visit might be able to provide that same service for around $50 if he didn’t have these costs to contend with.

What would happen if the doctors and the patients simply signed a contract in which they agreed to the following:  The patient would take responsibility for his own bill with no insurance company involvement, the patient would waive the right to file a claim for malpractice, and the doctor in return would provide services with his fee being on a sliding scale according to the patient’s weekly income.  For example, suppose this sliding scale were agreed to at 10 percent of the patient’s weekly income.  A person working for minimum wage would probably pay around $20 to $25 for an office visit.  A person making $100,000 per year would pay $200.  A person who has no income at all would be seen for free.

Overall the doctor would probably make just as much money and his job would be easier.  Patients could afford medical care and everybody could be covered.  Patients would still be able to choose their doctors.  In fact, if they like getting ripped off by the insurance industry, they could still choose to go to doctors who would not be interested in such an arrangement.  Doctors who like having to contend with insurance industry interference could continue to do so.  It would simply be up to patients to decide which doctor they want to support.

Small employers would also benefit if more doctors and patients made these arrangements.  Instead of having to provide employees with health insurance they could simply provide employees with information about which doctors can offer these types of plans.  Since most employer health insurance plans require premiums to be taken from the employee’s pay check, this could also be eliminated, which in turn gives the employees a slight raise in pay.  That money could probably cover most of their office visits under these sliding scale arrangements.

The next question is, what to do about the costlier medical procedures, and hospital stays?  It’s possible these could also be worked out on a sliding scale and still be profitable for the providers.  By eliminating the insurance companies, the costlier procedures would go down in cost.  Contracts could also be worked out which give patients a payment plan at a reasonable interest rate to make things easier.  In return again the patient agrees to waive rights to a malpractice suit, and conditions could be added to the contract to make collection of payments more enforceable.

Another way to fight back against the insurance companies is to lend our support to the nation’s free clinics.  This is another topic and you can find out more about it by visiting the website for the free clinics association:

http://www.freeclinics.us/index.php

If there are doctors or other medical providers reading this article, I would be very interested in hearing any feedback on how workable such a plan might be.  I really believe that patients and doctors working together can come up with workable solutions that leave the thieving insurance companies out in the cold.

 

 

 

Ron Coleman has been a freelance cartoonist and writer for over 40 years. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, books and on the internet. Samples of his work can be seen at his website:
http://www.colemantoons.com

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Because of the stranglehold the insurance companies have on Congress we may never see real meaningful health care reform in this country, unless we do it ourselves.  The people want it and the doctors and nurses want it.  The only culprit is the insurance industry.  So the solution is simple – let’s just cut the insurance industry out of the equation altogether.  Here is a plan on how this might be accomplished, simply by doctors and patients working together:

A lot of the cost in providing medical care comes from the need for doctors to cover themselves with malpractice insurance and also the costs associated with processing insurance claims for medical services.  A doctor who now has to charge $80 for an office visit might be able to provide that same service for around $50 if he didn’t have these costs to contend with.

What would happen if the doctors and the patients simply signed a contract in which they agreed to the following:  The patient would take responsibility for his own bill with no insurance company involvement, the patient would waive the right to file a claim for malpractice, and the doctor in return would provide services with his fee being on a sliding scale according to the patient’s weekly income.  For example, suppose this sliding scale were agreed to at 10 percent of the patient’s weekly income.  A person working for minimum wage would probably pay around $20 to $25 for an office visit.  A person making $100,000 per year would pay $200.  A person who has no income at all would be seen for free.

Overall the doctor would probably make just as much money and his job would be easier.  Patients could afford medical care and everybody could be covered.  Patients would still be able to choose their doctors.  In fact, if they like getting ripped off by the insurance industry, they could still choose to go to doctors who would not be interested in such an arrangement.  Doctors who like having to contend with insurance industry interference could continue to do so.  It would simply be up to patients to decide which doctor they want to support.

Small employers would also benefit if more doctors and patients made these arrangements.  Instead of having to provide employees with health insurance they could simply provide employees with information about which doctors can offer these types of plans.  Since most employer health insurance plans require premiums to be taken from the employee’s pay check, this could also be eliminated, which in turn gives the employees a slight raise in pay.  That money could probably cover most of their office visits under these sliding scale arrangements.

The next question is, what to do about the costlier medical procedures, and hospital stays?  It’s possible these could also be worked out on a sliding scale and still be profitable for the providers.  By eliminating the insurance companies, the costlier procedures would go down in cost.  Contracts could also be worked out which give patients a payment plan at a reasonable interest rate to make things easier.  In return again the patient agrees to waive rights to a malpractice suit, and conditions could be added to the contract to make collection of payments more enforceable.

Another way to fight back against the insurance companies is to lend our support to the nation’s free clinics.  This is another topic and you can find out more about it by visiting the website for the free clinics association:

http://www.freeclinics.us/index.php

If there are doctors or other medical providers reading this article, I would be very interested in hearing any feedback on how workable such a plan might be.  I really believe that patients and doctors working together can come up with workable solutions that leave the thieving insurance companies out in the cold.

 

 

 

Ron Coleman has been a freelance cartoonist and writer for over 40 years. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, books and on the internet. Samples of his work can be seen at his website:
http://www.colemantoons.com

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