Missing the Trees for the Forest!

When we are constantly coping with extremes, it is easy to miss the small matters, which if not dealt with too long a time, can become emergencies themselves. With hardly enough to live on and a more healthful than average diet, sacrificing any of the minimal things I had to have my teeth cleaned, seemed irrelevant. Indeed, I was never Guided to this this decision during the previous 8 years, even though it was proposed at least once and considered more often than that.

Perhaps it was just that I be exposed to the same kinds of challenges that would kill many others for lack of knowledge, awareness, and solutions. Realistic solutions are seldom found by persons who work from the idealistic and theoretical irrelevant positions of what SHOULD be done if you have access to unlimited resources and unlimited services. The REALITY is that increasingly, more and more middle aged persons in North America are having to live on fixed and dwindling incomes. Increasingly, these boomers, select carefully the urgencies on which to spend their resources, in addition to the personal preferences they have become addicted to.

Minimized access to quality healthcare services has increasingly also been the trend. Most boomers, and many younger and older individuals, do not have private healthcare insurance. They seldom continue to be employed by companies which offer medical insurance to their employees and even many of those plans increasingly have restrictions as to which services they will cover. Retired or self-employed persons can seldom afford the high premiums. The other options open to boomers are government healthcare services and self-education and proactivity.

Government healthcare services, in Canada, have continued to be rationalized downward through the mid-1990s to the present (2005). The situation in the USA must be considered more closely state by state. The emphasis has been placed upon the EFFICIENCY of the system, short-term, rather than the EFFECTIVENESS of it, longer-term. Continually this amounts to robbing quality health today in the blind hope that the fracture today does not deteriorate into the breakage of tomorrow.

In many government supported healthcare systems, a doctor is only paid according to a 15 minute timeframe for each patient. You make an appointment, see the doctor in a week, they ask you two or three questions, guess by association of symptom frequency with possible diagnosis, write a prescription ... and you are on your way. If you use the prescription and experience severe reactions, you may call the clinic or doctor's office back for expertise as to whether to continue with the medication. If your call is even returned, it will likely be advised for you to continue with the medication with no allowance for the negative symptoms. If you worsen, it is your choice whether to go to a hospital emergency department, or die.

QUALITY healthcare would entail taking a complete medical history of the person and providing it to the patient so they could take this with them for use by and review by other healthcare professionals. For as little as US$50, at Diagnose-Me.com, one can complete a 1000 question form on the Internet which is reviewed and assessed by medical personnel and receive back an extensive Report to assist your time constrained doctor. But, will your doctor review it? And, why won't your government service pay for it so that their doctors can do their job with competence?

INEFFICIENCY and INEFFECTIVENESS has been the decades long trend of healthcare in many Canadian provinces and many states in the USA. Chronic illness frequency and overprescribing of drugs has become endemic in these regions because the original problem is NEVER discovered and worked on and resolved. It is DENIAL that asserts that these are problems of aging when the aging in other countries do not have them. Dental amalgam mercury poisoning is just one of several major sources of health deterioration which continues to go untreated.

The political system wins, and loses, depending upon your degree of self-esteem and your willingness to be dependent. IF you avoid the healthcare system AND avoid resolving your health difficulties by personal effort, you die. This is the CHEAP fix, for the government: no more healthcare expenses, no pension payments, no old age security, no social service support.

IF you are both bored and needy in your retirement, you may become a professional patient ... visiting your doctor every week and the hospital every month. The prescriptions add up and the doctor and hospital bills total tens of thousands of dollars each year. They are paid by the government, so you never perceive the great burden you put on other taxpayers. The longer you live, the more the system loses. For them, your death is a preference; otherwise, they would outlaw mercury amalgam dentistry and mandate complete health history reviews for new patients ... with suitable compensation for the doctors, or, intake assistants, or Report generation services.

Self-education and proactivity is another possibility, yet is often not realistic. It is not that individuals are not intelligent. Rather, there are few persons who are independent minded enough to be critical without being rebellious. There are few persons who can be reactionary and discerning. There are few individuals who are sufficiently aware of the reality of statistical fraud, the research industry, and pharmaceutical manipulation to be able to determine the truth and the relevant from the lies and deceptions in the literature available. Even if you have the best of all of the desired abilities, without Spiritual Guidance, you will never always get it right.

The REALITY of INDIVIDUALITY hampers self-education and proactivity also. In a society in which most healthcare professionals and journalists know nothing of blood type and nutrition, fungal and intestinal worm parasites, energy blocks and imprinted patterns ... a status quo assumption of the IDEAL person usually means that the majority of health articles written and research reports published have a relevancy to 12% of the population, at most. Who are you going to believe? Why? It may sound good. Is it good enough to bet your life on! Is it good enough for you to bet the life of your spouse or children on? What if YOU contribute to their death!

The Future is Yours!

You, and those you love and care about do NOT have to experience ANY of the health challenges I have encountered. That is WHY this information is here.

IF you are intelligent you will learn from my experience and not have to repeat part of it before dying.

IF you are compassionate, you will have the understanding to encourage and bring hope to the many who have similar conditions and are struggling to remain sane and healthy and contributing to their families and society.

IF you are political, you will want to take this message to your social leaders and give them the motivation and support to reduce health care costs and social abuses by implementing solutions and focusing on the effectiveness of quality caring rather than the poor efficiency of quantity rationalization of services.