Oh, hellth care
So, before I go off on a wild tirade, I wish to preface this with: I probably don’t know what I’m talking about. There, now I’m off the hook from further responsibility… My disclaimer for my bias is that I’m a 13 year student/practitioner of bodywork. I say student because I have not stopped learning new things about the body and seeing the potential of touch therapies to physical disorders.
The tirade begins…
I’m seeing this debate about “health care reform” happening yet I don’t see anything of value actually being discussed. Yes, there is a great concern over being medically uninsured. I get that. But it still doesn’t speak the volumes necessary to actually use the term “health care reform”.
Modern medicine has made great strides in injury repair. And holy crap, MRI machines are the coolest thing. And so are all the other amazing diagnostic tools. And I guarantee, if I had a heart attack or other “immediate”, life threatening trauma, I’d be happy to have a good hospital close by.
However, modern medicine appears to do little for actual problems and dysfunctions. In the realm of pain alone, medicine typically does little more than bandage with medication in greater and greater doses until the patient becomes addicted or has some type of organ dysfunction.
One problem lies in the medical schools. These institutions, in previous generations, and probably still teach their students a limited scope of understanding of the human being. A scope built on “hard” science and doubtful skepticism. The human body is often looked at as commonly arranged individual parts that appear to function independently.
They’re not wrong. The body is commonly arranged, I imagine, in most humans; most of our parts are in the same places. They appear to be separate from one another; until one notices the full homeostatic network of sensory, chemical, fascial, nervous, vascular, muscular, mental, spiritual, and structural symbiosis occurring in the human form.
I see clients who’s physicians rarely and clumsily touch them for diagnosis. And not fully grasping the depth and breadth of possibilities, instead, write their clients off as “psycho-somatics” or “guess” and send them to some other specialist.
In the realm of chemical medicine, plants are often seen as living medicines. Yet our system of medicine, quarantines plants as useless or unproven as useful. Rarely sharing with the populace even findings of plants which do harm. Only qualifying those chemical plant extracts that can be synthesized by some pharmaceutical “giant”. A “company” who’s primary goal is profit; secondarily to create pharmaceutical medications that will claim to do what it says. Sounds vague, and it is. Pills that may reduce your blood pressure will also probably kill you. Medicines to cut the pain will probably also eat away at your stomach. Most medications, when taken in conjunction with other medications can do all sorts of things that we aren’t quite even sure of because there are new medications being offered to the market all the time. But what kind of cocktail are you creating while you mix six different medicines, plus you’re vitamins and supplements. Well, that is if you can afford such things. Not to mention the damage just one medicine can do on the human liver.
Even at the dawning of modern mans use of electricity, our medical establishment had all but banned the teaching of electrical, manual, or herbal medicine in the medical schools. Funded by those few wealthy business men who survived the 1930′s depression; these medical schools found their curricula designed to create a system ruled by profit.
I know there must be people in he medical establishment who are noble at heart who think first about the well-being of their fellow man. But, like all of mans endeavors, there lies a small but noxious population of participants who are self motivated or greedy. They seek nothing but profit from participating in such medical inventions. Thus tainting the practice of medicine.
It appears there is less money in health than there is in illness.
What appears before the American people (like all insurance) is an “illness plan”, not a “health plan”.
Health is something that can only be maintained, increased, or decreased.
Our modern medical system knows/shares little of what maintains or increases health. Instead, categorizing and labeling any helpful therapy as unproven unless controllable by the medical establishment via prescriptive use (profit). Therapies that are anecdotally agreed upon as safe and useful for health are in danger of becoming controlled as prescriptive substances. Look at what happened to Cheerios.
Oh and have you heard of the Codex Alimentarius?
“…Codex is being used to hand over control of our entire food supply, “from farm to fork”, to the pharmaceutical, pesticide, chemical, bio-technology and industrial agriculture industries — who now circle nations like sharks waiting for their feeding frenzy.” “Without permission” from Health, Freedom & Democracy by Jenny Marsh 11/06 Imagine having to have a prescription for 1000mg of Vitamin C. Not being told about the mineral qualities of spinach and kale? Needing permits to grow high lycopene level tomatoes.
I want to laugh too. But this too has passed… right by our elected protectors. In December 2009, I think, Codex will go into affect here in the states. Giving personal control of our health to a foreign body. You knew this right?
So I ask (as usual) why am I not hearing these details talked about by my electorate? Could it be because they make more money from power hungry tycoons, insurance companies, and multinational pharmaceutical corporations? No…… How could that be? sarcasm implied
In the end folks, like most things. We’re on our own here. Health is a state of mind. The maintenance of health is multi-faceted. Encapsulating as a minimum, diet, appropriate exercise, touch therapies (personal bias) and mindfulness….
Not to mention clean air, clean water, less stress, organic food, protection from harmful chemicals in our environment, etc. How is our governing body going to mandate all of these issues?
Do we want them to give control of every facet of our lives to big corporations? How else can we keep us safe from death?
Oh… The boogie man has entered the room. Oh, feared death.
Fearing death, we have forgotten to live. Forgotten to continue to learn. Forgotten to smile and laugh and sing. Forgotten to take life and examine it for all it is.
It’s late and this is a rant… So you’ll have to flow with it…
Look deeply into health care reform. We have already had forced inoculations, chip implantation, enforced quarantine, refusal of services? Nothing is as simple as it sounds.
Like I said, I probably don’t know what I’m talking about. I could be wrong. And I certainly don’t know what the right answer is. And hopefully no one will ask me. Because I’ll probably have something to say about that too…
