The Fibrochondriac

Healthcare from my daughter Teresa’s perspective…

Since I’ve started looking into the medical system from a bringing life into the world perspective, I’ve found the US is a scary ass place to do it. For 1/3 of the cost of a hospital birth a low risk woman can give birth at home and not feel like a guinea pig in a hospital room. But with the big money coming from the medical community (which aren’t they supposed to want what’s best, not what makes them the most money?) says they want nothing to do with other health care providers (non-physicians) doing physician work.

Well pardon me but last time I checked when these “doctors” came out of med school the best thing they had for me was a pill of some kind or another for my chronic urinary tract infections…Do they not think this would affect my health long term, had I chosen to follow their prescribed regiment?

To say keep politics out of health care…well first you have to stop the politicians from receiving HUGE DONATIONS from oh say the Pharmaceutical companies, organizations like the AMA, they all have their own agendas and guess what, it’s not in for our benefit. Surprise.

And to think that a health care system could be set up to be the best thing for the public at large…yeah pipe dream but it’s our pipe dream!

Access to health care should be something everyone wants to see in the near future, but can we get a real plan of action? I don’t know enough about the health care reform (thank you wicked awesome insurance, which has not always been the case!) but I do have a question, why not give each state power over their own health care? That way the people who want nothing to do with health care reform can move the heck out and be in their own state with others who agree. Problem solved. Ok, wishful thinking…

Oh wait, don’t think it’s only the medical community who continues to jam up this situation with money and political body counts, you think Big Agro wants to see all their hard work at poisoning the public at large go down the tubes?

What am I talking about? Can you imagine if people were taught to eat properly? How much would health care costs be reduced if we didn’t have teenagers being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? Or the humbling statistic of 80% of our population being overweight by 2030.

Go ahead, pick up that “mc-burger” and make sure you give your kid one, because it’s population control at it’s finest. You can kill yourself slowly with cheap food and then wonder why you take a handful of pills for blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, and let’s not forget heart disease, don’t forget the sky-rocketing prices for pills that cost fractions of pennies to make.

If we are so advanced and on the cutting edge, why are we feeding our population food that kills them? Because it doesn’t happen quickly and loads of money pour into the facilities used to treat these preventable conditions. Sigh…it’s a big web of bs, but there is still so much in this world to be thankful for.

There are people that bring the good to light, and every day people are making better decisions for themselves and their environment. As hard as it may be to ignore the bone head comments, at least we are able to make those comments. For instance, we are fortunate that we have not had our electronic communication cut as Iran did. (After all isn’t President Obama able to kill the Internet if “needed”?)

I will continue to believe in the goodness of people, finding the ones that embody kindness and caring are few and far between but when you find them they shine like stars. Cheesy yes, but it’s what keeps me sane when good news is few and far between.