Health Advocates: Senate Plan Encourages Discrimination

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Ensign is assuming that all people with health problem can take it upon themselves to get healthier. What about people with chronic conditions. Ones caused by genetics. Those people cannot do anything about that. Say, for instance, that you have Crohn's Disease, which is a form of IDB with no known cause or cure. Could you just “decide to get healthier”? You don't just wake up one day and say, “If I go to the gym more, I could cause my immune system not to attack tissue in my digestive tract.”

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I agree with ajm8127, and would add that for many people, overcoming nicotine addiction or compulsive overeating often proves nearly impossible despite their best efforts. We should not penalize such people, either–especially if they show that they continue to try to quit. Amendments such as this that allow the insurance companies to discriminate against anyone in order to maximize their profits to a scandalous degree deserve only derision and strong opposition from the public.

Health is not a commodity which can be provided by government. Government is good however at interfering with people's private affairs. The last thing one would want if ill is some bureaucratic vulture circling over head trying to dictate what options you have available to you to return to health. The more government intrudes on the patient physician relationship the more one can expect medicine to become bureaucratically cruel, wasteful and based off of concerns other than health.

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Just accept that good, efficient and effective healthcare for all will cost a lot of money. Adopt a single-payer method for funding and set up physician management groups in each state to deliver care with a layer of oversight to monitor quality.

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Going to the gym more would be a start. Then you could start by eating a plant based diet, organic of course. Eliminate sugar, coffee, soda's [which contain high fructose corn syrup], never eat anything that contains Aspartame, splenda, high &low, etc. Eliminate tobacco, drugs, household cleaners that contain chemicals, toothpaste with Laurayl Sulphate, Fluoride,and other chemicals. Never eat junk fast food, or anything out of a can. Use Sea Salt. Have any amalgam fillings replaced with composite material, and remove all root canals. They are a source of cancer, and other disease

Get plenty of sun in the summer for Vit. “D”, supplement with “D3″ in the winter. Detox regularly by doing liver, and Gall bladder cleanses, fast occasionally, Don't ask you doctor if a particular medication is right for you, In fact stay away from the doctor unless you have a broken bone, or need a test.

In case you haven't figured it out, it's all about the money. The Pharmaceutical companies will take your money for drugs that will either kill you, or cause you more problems so you will have to buy more drugs to deal with the new problems. They don't care about you, it's all about the money.

Well that's a good start, and you will get healthier because you have eliminated plenty that has caused your immune system to be overloaded. Now it will have more time for your Crohn's, and IBD.

Yes I know what you're thinking, “I can't give all that up”, and “Life is to short”

That's okay, but don't complain when people talk about giving the people who do work at getting healthy a break on the cost of their health insurance. I have insurance, for problems that might arise beyond my control, but haven't been to the doctor in 6 or 7 years, and don't plan on ever going if I don't have to.

Get involved with your own health. It's not rocket science. Just follow the money, and go the opposite direction remembering that your body needs nutrition, not what the food industry pushes at you with inferior products.

You make many assumptions there. You obviously do not know what Crohn's disease is or how it affects the body. It is an AUTO-immune disease, meaning the the body's own immune system attacks it's own tissue, mistaking it for a pathogen. so giving the immune system “more time” is actually only going to make it worse. I don't know why I would take medical advice from someone who does not even understand the body's ailments.

I agree with your over all point, but can you honestly tell me that everyone has total control over all of their medical conditions?

I know what crohn's is, I had three bouts of it's first cousin ulcerative colitus.Same symptoms without the stomach pain. Yes, I also was told there is no cure. In fact they wanted to do the surgery where they cut the offending colon out and put a bag outside the body to deficate in. I declined. That was about 40 years ago. I got rid of it by water fasting, but it returned twice more because of my diet, and the fact that I was overloaded with toxins to the point that my immune system was compromised.

I retired almost thirteen years ago with a host of medical problems including 4 or 5 sinus infections a year. Saw every ENT doctor in the city I live in, and all of them treated me with antibiotics. This of course killed off all the good bacteria in my intestines [which BTW is 80% of your immune system]. The problem was my teeth. I had read that amalgam [mercury] fillings, and root canals were health problems. I had several of both. My teeth wern't bothering me, so I didn't do anything about it for two years. Then I figured that allopathic medicine wasn't up to the task of getting to the problem, I had all the amalgam replaced, and the RC's removed. I haven't had a sinus infection since. [about 9 or 10 years ago]

In addition I got rid of sleep apnea, tinnitus, arthritis in my right hip [[couldn't walk more that 3 blocks because of pain], fibromyalgia in right shoulder, etc. all this in about a month or so after the dental work. All this at great expense by a dental surgeon who BTW agreed with my decision, but made me sign a CYA document stating that he tried to talk me out of it, telling me he could lose his license if the ADA found out. I found out later that there is a meridian chart linking all the teeth to certain organs, and tissues of the body. All the problems I had were linked to the teeth I removed, or replace the mercury amalgam.

I believe the UC is a thing of the past too as I can tell by my stools. They are well structured. No bleeding, diarhea, or constipation. This was accomplished with what I described in my first post as far as diet, and detox, probiotics [not the drug, or health store kind], but a six strain probiotic from “Custom Probiotics” .com. There is said to be trillions of bacteria in the digestive system, and when it gets out of balance trouble starts. The probiotics mentioned aren't cheap, [$165 100 grams], but there are 260 Billion good bacteria in each gram. the drug store kind might have 50, or 75 billion with 2 or 3 strains.

I'm not a doctor, and medical advice is not what I am about. Rather providing food for thought, and some encouragement that you can get well naturally. Don't believe the people that tell you crohn's can't be cured.

My best.

I know what crohn's is, I had three bouts of it's first cousin ulcerative colitus.Same symptoms without the stomach pain. Yes, I also was told there is no cure. In fact they wanted to do the surgery where they cut the offending colon out and put a bag outside the body to deficate in. I declined. That was about 40 years ago. I got rid of it by water fasting, but it returned twice more because of my diet, and the fact that I was overloaded with toxins to the point that my immune system was compromised.

I retired almost thirteen years ago with a host of medical problems including 4 or 5 sinus infections a year. Saw every ENT doctor in the city I live in, and all of them treated me with antibiotics. This of course killed off all the good bacteria in my intestines [which BTW is 80% of your immune system]. The problem was my teeth. I had read that amalgam [mercury] fillings, and root canals were health problems. I had several of both. My teeth wern't bothering me, so I didn't do anything about it for two years. Then I figured that allopathic medicine wasn't up to the task of getting to the problem, I had all the amalgam replaced, and the RC's removed. I haven't had a sinus infection since. [about 9 or 10 years ago]

In addition I got rid of sleep apnea, tinnitus, arthritis in my right hip [[couldn't walk more that 3 blocks because of pain], fibromyalgia in right shoulder, etc. all this in about a month or so after the dental work. All this at great expense by a dental surgeon who BTW agreed with my decision, but made me sign a CYA document stating that he tried to talk me out of it, telling me he could lose his license if the ADA found out. I found out later that there is a meridian chart linking all the teeth to certain organs, and tissues of the body. All the problems I had were linked to the teeth I removed, or replace the mercury amalgam.

I believe the UC is a thing of the past too as I can tell by my stools. They are well structured. No bleeding, diarhea, or constipation. This was accomplished with what I described in my first post as far as diet, and detox, probiotics [not the drug, or health store kind], but a six strain probiotic from “Custom Probiotics” .com. There is said to be trillions of bacteria in the digestive system, and when it gets out of balance trouble starts. The probiotics mentioned aren't cheap, [$165 100 grams], but there are 260 Billion good bacteria in each gram. the drug store kind might have 50, or 75 billion with 2 or 3 strains.

I'm not a doctor, and medical advice is not what I am about. Rather providing food for thought, and some encouragement that you can get well naturally. Don't believe the people that tell you crohn's can't be cured.

My best.

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The more government intrudes on the patient physician relationship the more one can expect medicine to become bureaucratically cruel, wasteful and based off of concerns other than health.