I'm only providing a link as to ensure authenticity.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=chandler-blake-webb&pid=168113816&fhid=19570
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Context, Cost, and Care
Controlling the food is obviously a way to control the people, but health care is truly sheople control. In America people are so afraid of death, they will submit to all sorts of invasive procedures. Since pediatricians have been intimidating young mothers for three generations, the programming is now firmly entrenched . . .
The fact that this quote was in an article in the finance section of yahoo news, is troubling yet illuminating. I haven't yet gained the insight to know whether this is:
A. the back handed move for a single source of health insurance in the US.
B. a new choke hold on the insurance commission
C. the realization that this plan is completely underfunded
D. truly poor leadership
E. or really precise planning for calamity.
What I do know is, this public claiming of responsibility and acknowledging the citizen's loss of trust isn't really taking responsibility or earning any trust. From the time it became trendy to acknowledge a mea culpa, irresponsibility truly became socially acceptable and sadly, applauded.
>>>Obama, for his part, made clear he would continue to fight ongoing attempts to sink the whole program, saying, "I will not accept proposals that are just another brazen attempt to undermine or repeal the overall law and drag us back into a broken system."
For a fuller view of this debacle the link to the article is included. The President's statement just truly caught my attention in that he has no regard for the old broken system. For something to be broken, the implication is that it once functioned. Our President, on the other hand, is determined to build a new system that doesn't work from the beginning!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/policy-cancellations-obama-allow-old-170751302.html
The fact that this quote was in an article in the finance section of yahoo news, is troubling yet illuminating. I haven't yet gained the insight to know whether this is:
A. the back handed move for a single source of health insurance in the US.
B. a new choke hold on the insurance commission
C. the realization that this plan is completely underfunded
D. truly poor leadership
E. or really precise planning for calamity.
What I do know is, this public claiming of responsibility and acknowledging the citizen's loss of trust isn't really taking responsibility or earning any trust. From the time it became trendy to acknowledge a mea culpa, irresponsibility truly became socially acceptable and sadly, applauded.
>>>Obama, for his part, made clear he would continue to fight ongoing attempts to sink the whole program, saying, "I will not accept proposals that are just another brazen attempt to undermine or repeal the overall law and drag us back into a broken system."
For a fuller view of this debacle the link to the article is included. The President's statement just truly caught my attention in that he has no regard for the old broken system. For something to be broken, the implication is that it once functioned. Our President, on the other hand, is determined to build a new system that doesn't work from the beginning!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/policy-cancellations-obama-allow-old-170751302.html
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Self Medicating
I'm really not sure why the term "self-medicate" is used so negatively. I realize it's associated with addiction problems, but there are a number of people addicted to prescriptions that are written for them, so why the derogatory inference? I self-medicate. I use legal substances, but I do self-medicate and I'm not ashamed of that.
I have herbal tinctures, topical analgesics, salves, oils, wine, and a couple of recipes containing alcohol, 1 for colds and 1 for pain. I don't use anything regularly, except red wine in the evening. Everything else is used temporarily for a specific injury or problem.
When I left "medicine" and no I wasn't a practitioner, I was a patient, a.k.a. guinea pig. Keep in mind, there is a lot of legislation in place to protect animals from laboratory tests. Not to mention, everything the FDA recalls or bans, it at one time approved. I understand there are class action lawsuits all the time over medication side effects. Yet I digress . . . When I left mainstream medical care, most people with my diagnosis were on at least 8 prescriptions. My last hospital stay, I was sent home with 13 prescriptions, and while four of them were acute medications, for the exacerbation; the rest were intended to be maintenance meds.
I realized then, I was at a cross roads, even if it wasn't a spiritual conviction! There is no cure for the disease I have and there was no functioning on that many medications! That's no life! Self-medicating is so much more manageable and the side effects are virtually non-existent. I will admit, however; enough alcohol to try kill the pain in my broken arm did leave me feeling a bit impaired, which is why I came up with CHINICREEN, a topical analgesic for pain that was bad to the bone . . . that was breaking through my skin. I don't want to go through life impaired, just comfortable when possible!
Since I don't medicate regularly, it doesn't take much in the way of natural remedies to positively affect my situation. I admit, that my legs don't work as well as they used to and MS spasms are miserable, so at the end of day, a couple of glasses of red wine do ease the spasms and I can continue working. I work at home, so driving is a non-issue. Our Creator gave each of us a body for which we are responsible. More addiction problems stem from chemical dependency than natural remedies. When considering the origin of the term self-medicating, it becomes self-explanatory. Perhaps it's time to take a different look at self-medicating, and consider when addiction is a psychiatric diagnosis of it's own, self-medicating may actually be the responsible choice.
I have herbal tinctures, topical analgesics, salves, oils, wine, and a couple of recipes containing alcohol, 1 for colds and 1 for pain. I don't use anything regularly, except red wine in the evening. Everything else is used temporarily for a specific injury or problem.
When I left "medicine" and no I wasn't a practitioner, I was a patient, a.k.a. guinea pig. Keep in mind, there is a lot of legislation in place to protect animals from laboratory tests. Not to mention, everything the FDA recalls or bans, it at one time approved. I understand there are class action lawsuits all the time over medication side effects. Yet I digress . . . When I left mainstream medical care, most people with my diagnosis were on at least 8 prescriptions. My last hospital stay, I was sent home with 13 prescriptions, and while four of them were acute medications, for the exacerbation; the rest were intended to be maintenance meds.
I realized then, I was at a cross roads, even if it wasn't a spiritual conviction! There is no cure for the disease I have and there was no functioning on that many medications! That's no life! Self-medicating is so much more manageable and the side effects are virtually non-existent. I will admit, however; enough alcohol to try kill the pain in my broken arm did leave me feeling a bit impaired, which is why I came up with CHINICREEN, a topical analgesic for pain that was bad to the bone . . . that was breaking through my skin. I don't want to go through life impaired, just comfortable when possible!
Since I don't medicate regularly, it doesn't take much in the way of natural remedies to positively affect my situation. I admit, that my legs don't work as well as they used to and MS spasms are miserable, so at the end of day, a couple of glasses of red wine do ease the spasms and I can continue working. I work at home, so driving is a non-issue. Our Creator gave each of us a body for which we are responsible. More addiction problems stem from chemical dependency than natural remedies. When considering the origin of the term self-medicating, it becomes self-explanatory. Perhaps it's time to take a different look at self-medicating, and consider when addiction is a psychiatric diagnosis of it's own, self-medicating may actually be the responsible choice.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Insurance
Let's discuss insurance for just a moment. Health insurance isn't really that, at all. Health insurance is a good diet, exercise, rest, and following a health plan. The label health insurance is like life insurance, it doesn't pay until there is no health or there is no life and it never pays the one who is covered on the policy. Perhaps if we used the actual terms we'd get a better grasp. What our politicians are forcing on us is "sick insurance." While what we call life insurance is actually "death insurance."
With that insurance fact established, doesn't it seem that insurance, especially health insurance is really like a wager against being healthy? Doesn't it seem like a lack of faith? I realize we have mandated insurance on cars and mortgaged homes, but that's insurance on money and material possessions. Car insurance is just that, it's insurance to replace your car or one of some else. Mortgage insurance is to pay off a mortgage in the event the house is no longer livable, so you don't have to pay for something you can't live in. Most people do weigh out the value between full coverage and state requirement according to the age of their vehicle and the replacement cost. It's all figured on money. But health insurance doesn't replace health and life insurance sure won't keep you breathing.
Although health insurance is really just about money also, it shouldn't be. Health is about people. It truly seems to me that medicine has already lost or laid down it's power, ages ago. Medicine seems to serve two purposes now. It is an arm of control for the government and sales and distribution for Big Pharma. It is funded, however; by insurance.
With that insurance fact established, doesn't it seem that insurance, especially health insurance is really like a wager against being healthy? Doesn't it seem like a lack of faith? I realize we have mandated insurance on cars and mortgaged homes, but that's insurance on money and material possessions. Car insurance is just that, it's insurance to replace your car or one of some else. Mortgage insurance is to pay off a mortgage in the event the house is no longer livable, so you don't have to pay for something you can't live in. Most people do weigh out the value between full coverage and state requirement according to the age of their vehicle and the replacement cost. It's all figured on money. But health insurance doesn't replace health and life insurance sure won't keep you breathing.
Although health insurance is really just about money also, it shouldn't be. Health is about people. It truly seems to me that medicine has already lost or laid down it's power, ages ago. Medicine seems to serve two purposes now. It is an arm of control for the government and sales and distribution for Big Pharma. It is funded, however; by insurance.
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