Holistic Health and Me

Health Insurance Reform, not Health Care Reform

It has been more than a year of political haggling and partisan politics by lawmakers trying to craft, hone and sell the health care overhaul, and head-scratching by the general public trying to figure it out.  The historic, nearly $1-trillion dollar measure was signed by President Obama on Tuesday.

At the center of this humongous, complex piece of legislation are new mandates that will enable 32 million people who do not currently have health insurance to receive health care coverage.  That goal is to be achieved through an intricate maze of new rules on insurers and employers, subsidies for people who can’t afford health insurance, tax codes and insurance shopping options.

Fear and anger over the plan is wide-spread and after all the debate and frustration, it seems that the general public is still left with more questions than answers; Is it too much government control? Will private insurance be able to compete under the new rules? Will it increase taxes? Will it reduce or increase the federal budget deficit? What is the prescription coverage? Will there be preventative care coverage? And a key question for the supporters of this blog–Will complimentary, holistic and alternative health care be covered?

While we try to find those answers, there are new measures to repeal or amend the law in the works as Republicans and others who disapprove of the changes get ready for battle. Lawsuits by states over the constitutionality of the overhaul were filed immediately. The politics over the plan are long from over.

Meanwhile, at least now that this law has been passed and signed, it seems to me that current articles and editorials are more accurately calling the measure health care insurance reform rather than health care reform.  According to Dr. Gladys McGarey, known internationally as the mother of holistic health care, while the health care coverage problem must be fixed, real health care reform will begin with a paradigm shift from health care being an industry of commodities to a vocation in the art of healing.  You can check out her comments about it on our YouTube Channel.  That philosophy is something SWIHA supports, and if you do too, please click here and let us know on this blog as well!

Merry L.

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