At a time when Americans are struggling to deal with addressing their health and meeting new government mandated requirements, it seems appropriate to ask the question:  what would a better health care system look like?

Many Americans have been, for decades, effectively maintaining their health with natural methods and alternative therapies which are completely unsupported by the current requirements.  By being forced to pay for medical services they are unlikely to use, it financially detracts from their ability to proactively address the maintenance of their health by such natural, gentler means.

The goal of this website is to weigh these "alternatives" against the government-mandated insurance system in order to envision something that may prove superior upon evaluation. 

Test yourself by reading the fictitious news release to the right:  imagine for a moment that it is for real.  Are you incensed?  Are you furious at the thought that our "Free USA government" would force us to pay for a so-called "health care system" which you don't believe in and don't  regard as useful to you?

That is how the Americans who are using natural alternative therapies feel:  they are being forced like a square peg into a round hole to pay for a "system" that they do not believe in.

While some kind of affordable catastrophic coverage, priced reasonably, makes sense for such individuals, the present offerings reveal scant cost difference between full-coverage and catastrophic coverage health insurance plans... the difference of a mere few dollars a month funnels participants into the full-coverage system they do not care to use.

This is just the start of some of the complaints that have been voiced.  Clearly the issue is far from being settled, and it is a very complex one to settle in a comprehensively satisfactory way.
NaturReformCare

The following is strictly an opinion piece to provide perspective and portrays an (obviously) fictitious scenario.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled as constitutional the implementation of the new NaturReformCare plan required of all Americans.  Under this plan, all Americans will be REQUIRED to purchase Natural Health Insurance that will cover treatment and care by practitioners of chiropractic, kinesiology, acupuncture, nutrition, qualified modes of energy medicine and naturopathic doctors.  With the exception of certain emergency medical interventions and diagnostic testing, Americans seeking treatment by AMA-qualified physicians and facilities will have to do so out-of-pocket as these will be excluded from the plan by virtue of having a bad track record – causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American annually and burdening the system with others who only add to government and regulatory costs.

The data over decades have borne out that those treated using natural/holistic methods are healthier and more productive citizens, living longer without being a burden on the system.  Chronic degenerative diseases are so significantly reduced under this plan that we will be able to relieve a large number of NIH and pharmaceutical researchers into the organic farming profession where they will do far more good rebuilding the health of the soil ecology, building local food security and lessening the burden on food banks for the needy.  (An organic farming stimulus package will be available to aid them in the transition.)

Opponents concerned about severe infectious diseases have little ground to stand on as the plan is geared to build proper healthy immune systems while creating a non-sterile but healthy biodiverse environment geared to enhance the thriving of healthy microorganisms.  The eradication of “anti-bacteria mania” will take a little while, but the topic will fade as it becomes clear that the population is predominantly healthy; what few extreme cases of infectious illness may arise can be effectively treated by any of a number of the supported natural therapeutic modalities.

Opponents also demand access to costly cancer treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy treatments. They certainly are welcome to continue that route, but every form of cancer has been effectively addressed in more benign and less costly ways under the current plan, rendering cancer far less a death or debilitation sentence than ever known previously.

Heart disease and stroke have also been a hot topic for opponents, but nutritionists have proven that clogged arteries can be gently cleansed with no need for invasive surgeries; heart rhythm can be maintained and supported nutritionally as well. Treatment for and recovery from stroke and/or cardiac arrest are both also addressed in the plan using electromagnetic technologies, hyperbaric oxygen, energy medicine and nutrition. Within a few years, NaturReformCare will largely eradicate these two present day health epidemics.

The AMA is up in arms and plans to try to continue to battle this decision, but the economics and sanity of the present plan is likely to prevail despite the AMA’s uproar. “What quacks will be zapping people with their invisible energies?” an AMA spokesman demanded today.  “How will the American people know who is or is not a qualified quack?”

The Supreme Court judge said he fully expects an unfriendly backlash from the AMA, but that “they have had the ball in their court for decades and have only proved they could further burden the country’s medical system.  They had the opportunity to create an exemplary system, but the evidence is clearly to the contrary.  To call the kinds of practitioners the new NaturReformCare plan supports as ‘quacks’ merely reflects their own quackery demonstrated over decades.”

Posted 1/26/14
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