Prevention and maintaining health

Reward companies who support programs that encourage, promote and provide coverage for wellness programs. Reward employees who use insurance paid programs to actually improve their health. Eg. Insurance paid weight loss programs such as weight watchers. Reward the company with lower rates, and the consumer who looses 10% of their goal by lower insurance rates.

My physcian friend told me, "If you listen to the patient long enough, the patient will give you the diagnosis."

1st Key: LISTEN FIRST, THEN TREAT CAUSES, NOT JUST SYMPTOMS.

 In my observation, Many Americans, including health care providers, have too much pride, whether conscious or not, in their limited knowledge of "acceptable medical treatment". Our greatest hope for improving the healthcare system lies in the integrative medical approach, or "Functional Medicine", which searches out the route CAUSE(S), not just symptoms, and uses proven modalities, including in-depth laboratory testing, nutitional supplementation, when the physician prescribes it, with ingredients passing the highest standards of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, as well as other modalities, many of which traditional health care providers still relegate to the "experimental" or “unproven” corner. The ones who want to walk the line between the traditional and integrative approaches are severely limited by the current mindset of the medical community, and thus cannot get insurance reimbursement.

One such effective modality is a treatment method that consists of the application of high (3,000 to 5,000 gauss) direct current electromagnetic fields, as described and used by the Advandced Magnetic Research Institute (amri-intl.com). Costs are minimal compared to the obscene prices of traditional treatments of serious conditions such as spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke impairment, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and congestive heart failure.

Many other modalities are currently used with great success in dozens of countries.

2nd Key: LET THE PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN DECIDE WHAT TREATMENT MODALITIES TO USE.

As long as procedures are GRAS, the medical community and insurance companies need to embrace or at least allow the less-invasive, less toxic approaches, which can save us billions of dollars. Each insurance company could have a review board consisting of all health care disciplines, including integrative medicine, chiropractic, Naturopathy, and Osteopathy.

Providers and insurance companies must listen: most patients want to be involved and have the choice returned to them for their health care. That also means patients must learn how to prevent health problems and take economic responsibility for unhealthy lifestyle choices. More laws or government control are NOT solutions.