Our Disease Care System
I cringe at calling it health care. My definition of health care is educating ourselves on what lifestyles and foods benefit our bodies, mind, emotions and spirit and implementing that education with action. This would involve the most holistic methods before resorting to chemical or invasive measures. I don’t always follow my own definition.
My husband and I recently found that through some sort of technical error that quite a number of employee spouses had been dropped from his plan at work. I actually haven’t been a part of an insurance plan for two years and neither of us had a clue that this was the case. The increased deductions for insurance were still offsetting any raises, and since I haven’t visited a doctor’s office in eight years how were we to know. I found out when new cards, or should I say “card” came in the mail. I asked my husband if he dropped me from coverage for some reason, to which he said, “No, why?” I debated on whether or not I even wanted to be added back on. I have such a white coat fear or blue as I think that is what they are wearing now (I guess blue has a more calming effect) that I probably wouldn’t go to a doctor of my own free will anyway. His paycheck today reflected a substantial cut. Too, I’m wondering if two years without coverage would make most everything pre-existing.
I do have regular dental checkups but obviously that coverage is separate and as no bearing on the other plan. Still, I cringe at calling it health coverage, so just refer to it as the plan. And, it obviously is a very well thought out plan for total control. I heard on an NPR program the other day that if our current system of “health” care continues as is that by a certain projected date if you were hovering over the world in an aircraft that basically all you would see below would be two classes of population – those working in the “health” care industry, whether it be hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, insurance,etc., and the patients using the services of the “health” care industry.
The last time I did go to the doctor’s office eight years ago, I ended up in much worse shape than when I went in. This has been the case with me for a very long time. I went in with no complaints asking if I should possibly take birth control pills. I was forty-nine and getting married for the second time. Within two weeks I had what my intuition and doctor friends confirmed later was two mini-strokes. They lasted merely seconds. I immediately threw the birth control pills out. I didn’t return to the doctor but did receive a message on the answering machine to quit taking the birth control pills. Perhaps they were tainted. I don’t know.
You may ask why I have such a fear of the medical establishment considering we have a lot of doctor and nurse friends. Their friendship came later through spiritual retreats, conscious living and yoga workshops. Prior to that my experiences with doctors involved going through some rather disturbing doctor visits feeling like a guinea pig that of course involved chemicals and invasive measures. The cure, in my particular case, was always worse than what I went in for. The doctor and nurse friends we have now are more in the Deepak Chopra vein of practicing medicine. Still they are in varying locations and differing fields and out of our coverage area.
It did take me quite a while after again much suffering to find a dentist I could be comfortable with. She practices along holistic lines, although I wouldn’t say completely. Her first move was to immediately begin removing all the mercury from my mouth.
With all that said one of my new personal health care regimes will start on Monday with a three-day water fast with group support in order to detoxify and cleanse. Then I will whip out our new juicer, which is becoming my new best kitchen friend as a follow-up along with gentle yoga asanas and walking out in nature.
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October 10, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Health becomes more inportant than money at this stage.
Prevention goes a long way.