Blue Sky and Health "Care"

Here are some things to look forward to in the future and NOW.  You can fly to your favorite destination with a pilot on drugs.  In the effort to remove the stigma of mental health the FAA thinks it is a good idea to agree with the unions and allow pilots on mind altering drugs to fly aircraft with you on board.
The drugs allowed are zoloft, celexa, lexapro, prozac.  The side effects are minor – just things like agitation, Akathisia (severe restlessness), anxiety, bizarre dreams, confusion, delusions, emotional numbing, hallucinations, violent behavior, headache, sexual dysfunction, heart attacks, hostility, hypomania ( abnormal excitement), impotence, insomnia, loss of appetite, mania, memory lapses, nausea, panic attacks, paranoia, psychotic episodes, seizures, suicidal thoughts or behavior.  Fly the friendly skies and you to will be driven to taking these drugs.

Pilots in charge of millions of lives drugged and this is thought to be a good idea.  We must work to destigmatize mental illness!!  At the risk of others death?  Why can’t they drink?  Insane decisions by the advisors to our governmental agencies, again.  There will be more of this if government health care is going to expand to include all of us.

Newsweek just did an article on the placebo effect when taking pills for depression.  Placebo actually are better because there are no side effects.   The article cites the FACT that there is no scientific evidence linking seratonin levels to depression.  A drug used in France is said to be successful and it lowers the levels not raising them.  Junk science.  Please look into this issue and scream bloody murder to the airlines.  Check out cchr.org and research the drugs for yourself.

You could have a pilot who agrees with using a plane as a weapon under the influence of these drugs.  I wonder what Sulley would say to this.  How much do reaction times affect a pilot?  We spoke recently to a narcotics officer who said the category in traffic citations is “under the influence” and it includes alcohol AND legal AND  illegal drugs.  There are no separate stats kept.  GREAT!  Here we go again, more insane health care issues to contend with.

If Health Care is Your Right in Life then Your Doctors Are Slaves

Extreme?  Not.  In life, happiness, health and success in reaching goals is possible only when we exert personal responsibility and are free to work hard and prosper.  As parents we know when we notice the good things happening with our kids we get more good things.   When we only comment and notice the bad we get that in spades.
As a society, we will get what we reward.  This pretended kindness of universal health care sounds great and it could be achieved in a workable beneficial way as a real kindness, apart from the know best government mandates.  We are going to reward people with free health care for being there, and we are going to do that by enslaving other people.  Doctors will be pressed into service and made to help.   Other people will provide the “fuel” to make it happen and other people will be enslaved to make sure the “right” to care is delivered.  How?  Through the government getting involved in another precious human relationship.

In your exam room will be the doctor, a nurse, the government through its boards determining which treatments your doctor can offer and by the report generated and the insurance company who will “pay” for your visit.  People who can afford to go elsewhere away from the prying eyes and “free” money will do that, they will be far healthier.  If you just reflect for a moment about what your current insurance covers you will see how the expansion of this intrusive, wasteful disease care could expand and get worse.  Federal governmental boards will oversee the delivery of medical care.  If you think medicaid and medicare are good programs then you will enjoy the changes.  We do not.

Reforms are needed.  The private sector needs to do more so the government can go on recess and leave us alone.   We need to be able to have coverage for catastrophic events and health conditions not currently helped due to the insurance company with the money calling the shots.  He who has the bucks makes the rules.

How about this.  Free enterprise at work in health care.  We have not enjoyed that for many decades.  A doctor friend of ours said once that if doctors were made to talk with patients about money the health care cost would go down.  Instantly. True.  When doctors and their staff collect the funds they charge the costs stay down.   We know many doctors who spend their time and help in free clinics.  We know dollar for dollar tax relief for medical expenses would help.  We know companies who self insure save health care dollars, that is why they do it.  We know people will spend money on doctors who help them and will not go to doctors who don’t.   We know health savings accounts are popular and helpful when understood.  We know buying an insurance policy for catastrophic care is affordable when combined with health savings accounts, or, if you are a twenty something, you can pay out-of-pocket for infrequent care and save yourself some bucks.

We also know the simple truths in life, you will see more of what you reward with your time, money and attention.  So if you want more poverty make sure you pay people to be idle.  Make it possible for people to have the bare minimums in life and they will, they will remain in the bare minimums.  Reward health and you will get health.  Reward initiative and you will get more innovation and more activity.  Open up the health care marketplace for patients and doctors and stand back and watch it improve.  People we talk to want control over their lives and over their bodies.  When that is the way of life there are more funds for temporary charity to help out a fellow citizen who has fallen on bad times.  The generosity of happy people who are doing well cannot be denied. 

Come and create a great society apart from an oppressive government.  Let us just help each other.  Let us just make our own way.  Let’s go!  Coleen

Our life support system: Better living through chemistry?

You don’t live near an industrial waste site? The truth is that even if you do, you probably get most of your toxins as pesticides and additives in your food or each time you apply various consumer cosmetic products. Your home, your cars and even the water you drink slowly leak chemicals into your life.There has been a staggering proliferation of toxic chemicals produced without due regard for testing for long-term health effects of low level exposures. Thousands of new synthetic chemicals come into manufactured consumer products every year with little to no safety testing or public approval process. According to the World Health Organization, there are over 100,000 synthetic chemicals in use in consumer products today with 1,000 to 2,000 being added to the list each year.
We breathe these chemicals through our lungs, absorb them through our skin and ingest them in the food we eat and water we drink. We are soaking up chemicals that we’d be hard-pressed to spell or pronounce, if we could even find out what they were.

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How do we treat people?

We listen and we use special diagnostic work-ups to help you determine the underlying reasons for your problems. We find the underlying cause and correct that and seldom need to resort to drugs and surgery.We would never treat a condition with drugs and surgery until we tried other approaches. Preventive medicine is not a diagnostic test; it is preventive treatments and life style choices that insure good health.

If you are currently taking drugs or have had surgery and still have a persistent problem come to us anyway. We can help you.

We will improve your condition and you will need fewer and fewer drugs to handle your problem. Our goal for you is HEALTHY AND DRUG FREE.

If we can’t make it all the way, you will at least be using far less medication and you will FEEL BETTER.

We are here and we are waiting to meet you and help you with the natural approach to your problems.

GOOD HEALTH IS THE FOUNDATION FOR HAPPY LIVING.

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We use effective natural medicine approaches FIRST before we recommend drugs or surgery. We help you regain control of your health and the quality of your life.