Many of you must personally know people who are ready to retire, but don’t do it, simply because it will cause them health insurance problems. If they quit their jobs, they will no longer get employer sponsored health insurance. Then they either have to pay much higher premiums that they cannot afford, or they cannot be accepted to any plans in the first place. They are also still several years too young to be eligible for Medicare, which in itself has many criticisms. And so instead of living the life they want to live, they go on working.

The fact that we’ve gotten ourselves into this situation is shameful. It is a factor that leads people towards living a fear-based life. Anything that encourages fear must go. Anything that makes a person weak should be thoroughly uprooted.

“Strength is life. Weakness is death.”

People spend their whole lives a slave to society and never think there is any other way to live. Then they invent all sorts of complex ways to enhance their ways of living, and end up unwittingly trapping themselves. The bloated institution of health care is just one of these ways we have strangled ourselves and limited our freedom. Insurance should be a factor that helps us reach freedom. It is clear that our efforts in this regard have gone terribly awry. Instead of giving us freedom, it has more and more become a factor of bondage.

One of the most reliable signs of a truly excellent doctor is that he or she does not accept insurance. Insurance is a limitation in a big sense. It funnels doctors and patients down channels that have been predetermined. If those funneled paths were really tried and true, then why is illness so much on the rise?

“Few of the many pharmaceutical drugs on the market are actually safe and effective.”
(Dr. Weil)

So those who criticize people who practice “voodoo” alternative medicine, or push “snake oil” are perhaps the ones who really are subjected to snake oil. I recently heard of some government agency that reported in a study that 80% of all treatments are actually unproven!

By the way, Dr. Weil has a new book which looks extremely interesting:

“Almost everyone who has been treated by – or works within – the American healthcare system at least suspects that it is deeply dysfunctional and on the verge of collapse. Although politicians have weighed in on all sides, in Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future, Dr. Weil identifies the root of the problem. He shows precisely how American medicine, manipulated by profiteering drug companies and abandoned by government overseers, has lost its way. He then presents a solution that will not only make healthcare affordable, but will also dramatically improve the rapidly deteriorating health of the nation’s citizens.”
(Dr. Weil)

You can read more about it on his website.

You can take care of your health now. I heard on the news that another government agency estimated 80 to 90% of all chronic disease would be eliminated if people stopped smoking, exercised, controlled stress, and ate healthy. So why not start with that. That may be more valuable than any amount of health insurance. Don’t wait for someone to solve your problems. You alone are responsible. And if others cannot take care of themselves then educate, encourage, and empower them to do so.

And yes, keep your health insurance. But take care of your health with integrative means that hopefully make you never need it.

Disclaimer: This article is not medical advice. This is opinion and is for informational purposes only. If seeking medical advice, consult a licensed physician.

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