All of the speeches given at the 2016 Health Freedom rally in
California were inspiring and are worth watching. David Wolfe’s
really got me thinking about what has happened in the United States.
While I think it’s shameful how many sick people fall into
bankruptcy or hopelessness or die because they can’t get the treatment needed,
I am not a fan of the ACA. Sickness took a big hit on my family’s finances and
we have to piece together little by little our health when we are able. Month by month we all
are recovering but many ill people's, especially Lymies, hands are completely tied. I will
not raise my arm for universal healthcare. To me in order to have that, FIRST healthcare that is inclusive of alternative treatment must be part of that system.
What the ACA did in my world is push small businesses into one choice where it is impossible for most of us to offer insurance, which at one
time we did. Our premium rose 30% one year and 50% another year reaching $1,800
a month. So in 2015 due to our
financial woes, we dropped it. Because growing up my brother was sick, I had
been brought up the value of having health insurance. From the first time it
was offered, I jumped on it. When we lost it, first I felt worried to not have
that life boat. The longer we are without it, the more safe I feel not having
it. See something did happen prior to dropping it. I got sick. Our children’s
health was backsliding from their well visits and Lyme and mold and insurance didn’t cover
anything I needed to restore our health, outside of blood work. No doctor I saw
within that insurance helped me or my children. Absolutely insurance has its place for
people having babies and for people who need to see regular doctors. I get
that. Hospital expenses can easily reach into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Maybe one day we’ll get some kind of major medical but for now we need that
money for supplements.
The bigger picture to me is how insurance has trained people
to think that health is found within our system. I can’t count how many times
people have asked me for advice. I’ve offered some kinds of practitioners I
have found helpful and the conversation ends with “My insurance doesn’t cover
that.” Off they go to continue swimming around in the pharmaceutical funded
healthcare system, never finding answers. Symptom management is found there,
but it is not always safe. Sometimes all we need are the proper supplements but
the AMA-trained don’t know how to look. I mean every alternative practitioner I
have met sells supplements. Does your doctor sell any? Nope, but they can give
you a sample of something from a pharm company. A few have listened to what I have to say and are on their way to recovering. I am deeply humbled that they respected me enough to hear me.
It’s no secret doctors are limited in ordering tests.
Insurance companies now dictate which are covered. Pharmaceutical
companies dictate what medicine should be used to manage symptoms. Meanwhile
consumers constantly fight for coverage they thought they had. We have to be informed to ask for safer drugs if the pill of the year has concerning side effects. Doctors and nurses aren’t even allowed to seek answers for patients between the orders they
take from those two driving forces, topped with patients not wanting to or not being
able to afford to pay out of pocket. The time alone most practitioners have for
patients has their hands tied. I was FLOORED at my first appointment with my
functional doctor because of how much time he spent with me and how he read my
blood work as a whole, not just looking down that piece of paper for flags. It was the first time in my life I actually felt like a doctor REALLY cared about me. Even practitioners like him have their hands tied because research about treating the whole body has been suppressed. However, a patient can get A LOT further with the kind of holistic view people like him learned.
If
you ask a doctor what can you do nutritionally to support healing, very few of
them have advice. Some will even say “nothing” which is just silly. Every
condition is affected by what we eat. Honestly, I feel empathy for the healers
who chose to go the med school route without adding on other means of healing.
They meant to do a service to people. I believe most of them had good
intentions and I believe some are out there trying but it’s like trying to fix
a car’s engine with a body shop’s tool box. Then there are those who have gotten wrapped up in the
ego of having that degree and can’t see outside of the books that trained them.
The science of health is an ongoing education.
We have an extension on our taxes and I am not yet sure if we
have to pay the fine for not having health insurance. What a ridiculous tax
that is. On one hand you are fining people who can’t afford the insurance, no
matter how much the cost is reduced. On the other hand you have people who don’t
want to participate in this health care system being fined for choosing natural
means to stay healthy or treat their illnesses as they arise. If someone has
great health through herbal medicine or Ayurvedic medicine or traditional Chinese medicine why should they be financially punished for that choice? There are thousands of years of practice behind these ways. It’s almost like fining people who can afford to send
their children to private school for not going to public school. They are
already paying out of pocket for that choice.
I’m not suggesting everyone go out and drop their health
insurance, but I am suggesting that people stop using the marketing slogan “It’s
not covered by my insurance.” That thing, whatever it is, outside of your insurance may be just what you need, and can you put a price on your life? My personal joke is if the first few pages of
Google, or Snopes for all that matters, says something is quackery, then that
is a sign to look into the real life applications and read from people who
healed with that method and dig further into the research. Of the numerous AMA
doctors I saw before I found my way out of the system, only one gave me a page
about foods that would help. That was followed by a comment of “We don’t really
know what causes it.” This industry loves to toss around the word science when
what it actually practices is not often scientific in regard to the treatment
of a body. As Del Bigtree said,with such resonating force, at that same rally, "Science is NEVER settled." If a specialist doesn’t know what causes it,
then following their advice is an act of faith and when it comes to faith, we
are entitled to freedom. David Wolfe presented this quote...
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict
the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to
others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special
privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.”
Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
