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Wall Street Prepares for Public Healthcare Reforms

Here, here. Round of applause.

"Alternative medicine" is really nothing more than healthy diet, exercise, relaxation techniques, and applying natural solutions to health issues.

The medical community has given alternative medicine a bad name out of ignorance and deception. The truth is, if all Americans would simply eat healthier, exercise, relax/meditate/pray, and look for a natural solution to their ailments, doctors and drug companies would suffer mightily.

We still need the medical community to tackle non-elective illnesses. We will always have cancer, tumors, blood clots, etc. But these extremes are not what ails our country. It is ELECTIVE illnesses stemming from obesity and body abuse (smoking, drinking).

We do not need more doctors. We need more access to what is currently called "alternative medicine", which is simply a derogatory term for simple common sense and what previous generations used for general health care.

On Sep 15 05:49 PM Joe Duggins wrote:

> Preventing disease is quite different from creating health. The term
> preventive medicine is an oxymoron that is accepted as normal. Medicine
> was never designed to create health and wellness, yet it also never
> allowed any other type of practicioners to focus in this area. Medical
> education is one spoke in the wheel of the healthcare system and
> has attempted to dominate the market place for over a century by
> assuming that the term medicine is all encompassing. There are many
> healthcare providers that are extremely well trained in the healing
> arts and science, that do not go through the traditional medical
> model of education. That lack of awareness of this in the statement
> shows that Senator Kennedy may not have a complete grasp of why the
> system is broken in the first place.
>
> Early and possibly free tests are nothing new and usually are code
> words for someone else paying. It also usually means that the treatments
> options will be increases in dispensing medicine and surgeries. Using
> words like wellness but not understanding them become buzz terms
> for marketing firms yet do nothing to actually help right the ship.
>
>
> Big pharma, which has destroyed any idea of Americans taking responsibility
> for their own outcomes, our corrupt agricultural businesses and stock
> price driven insurance companies are too powerful and insidious for
> any reform to add up to much. As we watch oil prices rise and fall,
> Americans are having their attention diverted as hundreds of thousands
> of people die because of medical mistakes every year in this country.
> The miracle of modern medicine brings back memories from The Wizard
> Of Oz with the man behind the curtain. At this point in our history
> it is imperative that we make it a Health Revolution.
>
> We need to join together as health providers of all disciplines,
> consumers and leaders to go through the most difficult challenge
> we will face in our lifetimes. Empowering people to realize that
> they can create health largely by the decisions they make day to
> day. A large part of the Revolution should include a spoke of the
> wheel being in charge of the wellness arena that is separate and
> distinct from medicine yet working for the ultimate benefit of the
> patient.
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