Ready for some scary healthcare statistics? - Americans spend more on healthcare every year that we do on educating our children or feeding ourselves.
- The current national cost of healthcare is $2.6 trillion annually.
- At the same time, 45 million Americans have no health insurance.
- The cost of healthcare insurance is rising eight times faster than income.
Yikes! That's kind of scary right? I think so. I never had health insurance until I turned 65, when the government gave me Medicare. Although today I have access to the healthcare offered by Medicare, I try not to burden the national medical system for two reasons:
1. It may not be there forever
2. I am on my own healthcare reform program
How to Conduct Your Own Healthcare Reform Program
As a nutritional counselor and doctor of Chinese Medicine, I have always believed that we are each individually responsible for our own health. True, if you get in a car wreck you might need to take advantage of an ambulance and the emergency room. Aside from that, though, I have some healthcare principles that have kept me and my clients hale and hearty for many years (and as far from the ER as possible).
- Prevention is better than cure.
- Eat live foods like blue-green algae to live longer.
- Eat like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunch, and a pauper at dinner.
- Life is a feast -- drink in sunshine, savor the taste of love, live on the energy of a smile.
- Be happy -- all physical conditions are psychosomatic in the beginning.
- Make small improvements to your health regularly -- a small change in the present creates a larger change in the future.
- When it comes to healthcare reform, start with yourself and your family. The rest will take care of itself.
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