Healthcare Reform

So many of you have asked for my opinions on healthcare reform, now I feel that I have the opportunity to endorse ideas with the new year and an opportunity to bring positive changes to life in our country. Please join with me and help our world change for the better. We are facing new leadership that can help us make healthcare work for everyone, but we must let our visions be shared and our voices ring out with truth and caring. The following are some of the ideas setup by the Flower Essence Society which I choose to support:

  1. Humane, appropriate health care, including alternative choices, should be the right of all citizens of the United States, including pregnant and birthing women, children, people with disabilities, the elderly, and those at the end of life.

  2. Health care must promote health and wellness, not merely manage disease symptoms.

  3. Preventive care is more than screening for symptoms. It includes a positive program of wellness, including healthy diet, exercise, mental and emotional health, and natural therapies that support the body’s inherent self-healing powers.

  4. Health care must include full freedom of choice regarding health care options; herbal medicines, homeopathy, and flower essence therapy as well as massage, acupuncture and other innovative therapies should all be freely available in any health care program. Each individual should be free to choose from the full spectrum of health care modalities, without interference from the government restricting particular methods.

  5. A diversity of health care options, especially those that are holistic and preventative in nature, would actually lower our nation’s cost for providing universal coverage and result in a far healthier population.

  6. We must champion the needs of children in any health care program. Of particular concern is the increasing use of pharmaceutical drugs with children, rather than preventative measures such as good diet, counseling and assistance for at risk-children, and a full spectrum of educational programs that include artistic expression, physical exercise and creative play.

  7. The use of mandatory childhood and other vaccinations (i.e., HPV, flu, etc.) should be closely examined, as increasingly there are vaccine reactions with tragic consequences and with great impact on the health care system. Vaccine reactions include vaccine-induced neuroimmune dysfunction, including chronic inflammation. Additionally, there can be grave ill-effects from toxic components added to vaccines.

  8. Disease management is expensive and profitable for the drug companies, insurance companies and medical specialists. Primary and holistic care is cost-effective and leads to a healthier population. Ordinary citizens and the community-based organizations that represent them should have a vital and authoritative role in any new health care system. These new programs should not be designed to funnel billions of dollars into a high-overhead, for-profit health care industry.

  9. Health care reform depends on reforming our agriculture policy, to promote healthy, whole foods and organic, sustainable farm practices. More than two out of every three Americans are overweight and consume one of the worst diets in the world, one that makes our nation both overfed and undernourished. A health care program must include integration with a revitalized agricultural policy at all levels.

  10. Health care reform means ending medical discrimination against holistic health practices and natural health supplements, to allow truthful health information to be freely given in regard to the health benefits of natural remedies, to allow holistic health practitioners to freely practice without fear of prosecution.

My thanks to the Flower Essence Society  (www.flowersociety.org) as they have worked diligently during the last three decades to champion a holistic vision of the human being, in both body and soul. We have a critical opportunity right now to bring our vision to a larger public. Please go to http://change.gov/page/s/healthcare and register your comments now.  Thank you and Happy New Year to all. Wishing you abundance, blessings, and wellness. 

— Joan    © 2009  Joan Goodman

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