The Real Cost of Healthcare
The truth is that very few Americans feel cared for.
Annual doctor appointments usually involved a very brief encounter with some medical staff to schedule tests to determine what is wrong with the current state of health. If results fall outside the normal ranges, prescriptions for pharmaceutical drugs that may help return “normal” readings may be offered. The possible adverse reactions and risks associated with these chemical substances may or may not be disclosed. Risk assessment is certainly not focused on when dealing with symptom alleviation. There usually isn’t staff to offer counseling on healthy food, attitude, air quality, water quality, adequate sleep, safe sex, or exercise while scheduling the routine “check up” tests. If health concerns such as fatigue, sleeplessness, depression or pain are mentioned in the encounter, out comes the prescription pad. Healthcare comes in a bottle available at the local pharmacist. No one seems even slightly interested in taking “care” of health.
Insurance companies don’t seem concerned about taking care of health either. They are offering health care premiums that are enough to make most Americans not only sick, but perhaps mortally wounded. Insurance rates have forced people to choose between food and medication, between housing and medical help. These seemingly unstoppable rate increases have forced many businesses to close, and driven many families into bankruptcy from unemployment. Businesses that have remained viable have pushed the costs onto remaining employees. The new Federal Medicare program is so convoluted and stressful that we have an entire older generation baffled about who will cover their medical care costs. There are now “Health Care Consultants” that will help figure it all out for a mere $10,000.00 a year. Insurance coverage now costs more, covers less, and the spiral goes on an on. Stress, anxiety, and worry are not conducive to better health. Do Americans feel “cared” for?
Is there anyway to achieve and maintain good health in a system that profits from illness? Good health is something most of Americans are born with, have taken for granted, and only deal with at a crisis point. Many trusting Americans have actually taken medication innocently on their doctor’s advice only to discover the disastrous effects later with no one to help them with the resulting costs or damage. Can any long term real health care come from this mess?
A few Doctors are now advising that the answer to real health care is prevention. That’s right. Take good care of the only body you will have to live your life. Assume full responsibility for what happens to it in every way. Treat it kindly and with good care. Put the kind of food in it that has worked in a human body for thousands of years. Avoid processed foods, preservatives, additives, and chemicals of all kinds. Do not expose it to toxic substances. Allow it to rest. Take it for a walk. Question every unnatural substance that goes into it. Do not expose it to stressful situations. Explore natural ways to alleviate symptoms. Do your own research. Become educated about your health. Consider alternative health care. Ultimately, real care for health is an individual matter. To insurance companies and government agencies, each American is a statistic. The truth is that each American is somebody special; somebody’s mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter, best friend or employee. Take good care of your health.
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