A Crystaliscious Perspective on Obama Care - another controversiaal post from crystaliscious

Opinions, we all have them, and I am about to express mine. If you have a desire for others to share your opinion at no cost, I urge you to stop right here. What I write here is not a plea for others opinions, nor is it a cry for help that someone can help me to see the light. This is my opinion, if you have an open mind and enjoy seeing what other people think about controversial topics please read on! Comments are welcome, however any negative slandering will quickly be deleted.

I grew up in the healthcare industry. Learning to draw blood and perform EKG’s by the time I was 14. I was the last of six children, the previous 5 had caused a wee bit of trouble and at the very first inkling of adolescence my father required me to work in his medical practice after school and all summer.

Things were different then, although I am not elderly, much has changed since the days of people going to the doctor when they are sick and paying cash. This was a time when physicians could own stock in procedural clinics, a time when insurance covered only hospital stays, a time when women stayed a minimum of 3 days after delivering a child, a time when individuals had relationships with the family physician, and some even still made house calls. Files were manilla folders with hand written notes, dictation was only done for hospital records. EKG’s were run on one long tape that had to be cut and mounted to be interpreted. Anyone could perform lab procedures, there was no credentialing required for most positions that weren’t physician or nurse. It really wasn’t that long ago.

Now we have ObamaCare. No I haven’t read every detail about it. Just enough to understand that this will effect every individually differently, rarely will it be good, and no one will be excluded. As we see ObamaCare rolled out into the healthcare industry, I do expect that there will be some bumps in the road, I do hope that we see appeals to many of the requirements and I also would love to see these challenges hold this up in the Supreme Court. Why would I like to see this fail as an answer to our healthcare quandary? Because it  doesn’t address the issues at hand, it is merely a ‘Healthcare Bail-out”.

The issues of our health that are addressed are more about making health insurance available to everyone, not healthcare. With a requirement that every individual must carry health insurance, we have now crippled the holistic healthcare industry and naturopathic industry and we have tied the hands of our healthcare industry while our insurance agencies fill their pockets. How is this?

By requiring individuals to purchase health insurance no matter what, we now are taking income that today may be budgeted for reflexology, or massage therapy, but tomorrow will be used to fulfill the requirement for health insurance. I am self- employed and have been without insurance for a few years, I have not gone to the doctor and I have not had a visit to an emergency department. I have no unpaid medical bills. If I am sick my method of choice for treatment is holistic, not allopathic. I spent 25 years in the healthcare industry, working day to day with physicians, nurses, physical therapists,physician assistants and nurse practitioners, I cannot name any that I would personally see as a patient. Not meant as an insult at all, these individuals are highly educated individuals who have proven track records of being the best at what they do, however I choose to use a different method of healing. One I learned years ago before watching my father do what he did best.

My father healed people, he didn’t treat them. He used to tell me ‘ People get well if they want to get well, it’s my job to remind them why they want to get well’. He believed this. All of his patients will attest to this. He listened to his patients. He heard his patients. He knew his patients family, extended family and where they lived. If his patients child was sick he fretted with the parent, if someones parent died he cried with the children. My father wasn’t the perfect father, but he came close to perfection in his practice of medicine.

This is the treatment that I have spent many years looking for and couldn’t find in the ‘new and improved’ healthcare system. The system that patients have become numbers and as I would often hear  in clinics’ herd em in - herd em out!’, where people have become cattle to be herded through a system with little or no choice.

This is the treatment that a small group of people are trying to learn how to replicate, these individuals are called holistic practitioners. These are the individuals who will work with the parts of you that the medical field no longer addresses. These individuals aren’t part of ObamaCare, because ObamaCare isn’t about healthcare, its about regulating an industry that obviously could not regulate itself.

We are all familiar with the auto industry bail outs, and the financial institution bail outs, this is just the healthcare bail out with a twist - lets propose this to the peoples advantage.

Because the healthcare industry loses money, and cannot manage their own budgets they have asked the government to bail them out and require every american to purchase insurance because they are losing money. How do I come to this conclusion? I have managed clinics, for several years. For both non profit and for profit, and with the current federal regulations it is near impossible for any kind of emergency department, ICU department, Pediatric Department or Urgent Care Department to break even, much less make a profit. This is not a mis - management in all cases, quite often these losses are budgeted and other department budgets are increased to make up for it. Very Simple 101 Healthcare structure. The federal government has regularly implemented regulations that are both costly and of no value to patient care, these are generally the issues that keep these departments in the ‘red’. So one way to allow the healthcare industry to flourish is to make sure that absolutely every individual in the United States is insured....whether they want allopathic healthcare or not. 

What of those individuals who will no longer be able to afford their holistic healthcare after paying the new insurance premiums? What of the individual who is directed to a physician merely because he is new on the insurance companies radar, rather than one who is top notch in their field. What of the patient who has nothing on the streets, will the homeless people be rounded up and fined or put in jail for not having the health insurance?

It amazes me that others don’t see this as a way to undermine the naturpathic fields. If an individual is paying for health insurance they will naturally be directed straight into allopathic fields. I don’t want my medicine coming from the same scientists that are creating the genetically modified foods, seeds and corrupting our dna banks with their chemicals that they are testing on us. I don’t want my medicines coming from the campaign contributors that own our government. Not only do I not want this form of treatment, I do not want to contribute to it either. Will insurance premiums cover someones herbal supplements rather than prescribed medications? No, it won’t. How many of us will pay both our premium and our supplements? This new system of healthcare not only takes away our choice for our personal care, it cripples the alternatives that we currently have through economic bullying.

I am required to buy auto insurance, why am I angry about having to buy health insurance? 

I have a choice if I buy a car.

I have a choice if I drive that car.

Where is my choice in Obama care? Where is my choice that we women have fought a generation to have- it is now being taken in an underhanded way. This will be the first of many many choices taken away with your bodies, minds and spirits. 

If I am a woman who has the right to make choices about my body than why do we as women, men, Americans not have a choice about allopathic healthcare or holistic healthcare?

Lots more to say on this subject.....but it can wait til next time, remember, just my opinion, I really don’t care if you share it, approve of it, or are convinced that I have several screws loose. I still have a right to it. You also have a right to start your own blog... ;)-