Everybody knows that our current health care system is messed up, and there are hundreds of ideas out there about what to do about it.

Unfortunately most of our elected officials think that the solution is just to make everyone have health insurance.

If they could just step back for a minute and look at the problem from the outside they would realize that a large part of the problem is insurance.

The things that work best in our society are consequences of free market forces. The less government involvement the better. It blows my mind that people want our incompetent government to take control of their health care! The only thing the government does well is to run the military.

The Problem with Insurance:

The real problem with insurance is that it takes away free market controls. You and I can't make our own decisions about where to go for health care or what procedures to have done. The insurances companies have made it so we don't even know how much a particular procedure will cost. We can't shop around for the best deal.

The other day my daughter was trying to decide if she should take her little boy to the doctor to run some test or another. Theirs is a new young family with no health insurance at the time. She tried to call around to several doctor's offices to find out how much the tests would cost. They couldn't even tell her how much it would cost without first contacting the insurance company.

Doctors aren't even allowed to give the procedures and/or tests that they think you should have. They have to use what the insurance companies tell them to use.

There are no market controls on health care costs. That's why costs continue to sky rocket.

Many people will tell you that doctors need insurance in order to get paid. Sure the doctors don't have to do their own payment collections, but what about all that insurance paper work and hassles? It can't be any easier than collecting on their own.

Doctors who don't align themselves with insurances companies can set their own prices and control their cash flow. They can preform the procedures that they see fit and that you agree to pay for. They can barter with you and make whatever payment arrangements work out best for both of you.

Of course, simply eliminating insurances companies will not fix the health care problems, and if you eliminated them suddenly that would cause big problems.

There is a way to phase them out, and the good news is that it is already starting to happen thanks to market forces. Health Savings Accounts are starting to introduce at least some market forces into the system. You can get a health savings account and then change your insurance plan to a catastrophic health care plan which costs much less than the cover everything plans. As your Health Savings plan grows you can exercise more and more power over how your savings are spent and you can continue to cut back on the amount of insurance that you need.

There are certain tax benefits to Health Savings Accounts at the present time, but even without any tax incentives everyone should continue to build and use them.

Just be careful in your shopping for an HSA(Health Savings Account). Make sure that it is not too limited or controlled or you will find yourself with some of the same problems that you have with insurance companies.

The Even Bigger Problem:

The biggest problem with our health care system is not insurance. The biggest problem is that our modern health care system is not even based on seeking health.

To actually improve health care we have to make a paradigm shift. We have to make health the goal and get back to the Hippocratic oath of "first do no harm".

Our health industry has gone in the opposite direction of that oath. Our treatment of nearly any health concern has been distilled down to using drugs of one form or another.

Drugs always cause harm!

A drug may help to eliminate some symptom that we have identified but it is always accomplished by weakening some other part of the system. Drugs are toxins. The body has to fight them off and try to eliminate them from the system.

One of the major paradigm shifts that we need to make is that as we seek to improve health, we must seek for solutions that do no harm!

Where do we find those kinds of solutions? We have to look at the whole body as an integrated system. We have to stop accepting things that will make a headache go away, but at the same time cause stomach and kidney problems.

The process of developing drugs began when we determined that certain foods had particular beneficial effects when we ate them. It was then theorized that if we could break down that food and find the particular portion of it that caused the desired effect we could isolate that out and get a faster or stronger effect. That turned out to be true. But in so doing we failed to realize that many (if not all) of the parts of the whole food worked together to not only stimulate certain things in the body but to also help balance the systems of the body so that the whole body was made strong. By isolating out one particular element we destroyed the balance, and the resulting substances were toxic to the body.

Unfortunately once we saw that we could treat symptoms with drugs, we decided that if we could create drugs to treat any and all symptoms then we could cause health. That was the down fall of our health care system because we started treating symptoms instead of people. In stead of health care it became disease care.

So now most of what we call a health care system is actually a disease care system. As a result we have more and more disease and less and less health. The more drugs we use, the more we upset the healthy balance of the systems within our bodies.

The more research we look at, the more clear it becomes that the solution to our health problems is to use whole foods in our diets and whole foods as our medicines.

Whole foods were designed for us by our creator. They keep the balance in all the systems of the body so that it works well together as a whole. Indeed, if we eat whole foods, we don't even get most of the diseases that currently plague our society.

So to fix our health care system, all we have to do is use Health Savings Accounts and use whole foods as our fuel and as our medicines.

See how simple! :-)


Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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Success in health comes from lifestyle described here.

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