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"Without medical insurance, the cost of medical testing and possible hospitalizations would bankrupt her new relationship. Since Carmen and her fiance believed they had no other options, they made a self-limiting assumption. Descending into a depressed deep freeze, they locked into what they thought was their only plan: to marry in a quick ceremony, wait the obligatory three months for Ned's medical insurance to go into effect, and then visit the doctor. To protect their scheme, they shared it with no one, including their families." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The mechanics of getting a second opinion depend on either the type of medical insurance you have or your willingness to pay out of pocket. If you belong to an HMO, your primary care provider acts as a "gatekeeper," the only person who can grant you access to medical services beyond those he or she provides (including specialists). So the actual referral has to come from your doctor, even though you asked him or her to provide it. Another limitation of the HMO is that the doctor you would like to see may not be on the HMO's approved doctor list." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Most people don't ask about this regarding their dental plan, even though they may have when shopping for their main medical insurance. • Allow for Preexisting Conditions JL/ike managed-care medical plans, health plans for dental coverage go to great lengths to describe and define preexisting conditions. They do so for business reasons: To reduce their liability for potential high reimbursements and surprising future charges." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Billions of dollars are spent each year out of pocket since medical insurance often does not cover these nonconventional approaches. People are beginning to realize that the Western biomedical model neglects fundamental facets of the healing experience, namely, its narrative and relational aspects. When patients see the inadequacies of Western medicine up close—a misdiagnosis, a drug with negative side effects, botched surgery, even a dismissive doctor—many find the experience disillusioning." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"This guarantees that there will always be enough patients who need medical attention and medical insurance. This trend, of course, will continue only for as long as the masses remain ignorant of their potential self-healing abilities. As already mentioned, it is not in the best interest of the medical industry, including the pharmaceutical companies, to find a real cure for cancer or for any other chronic illnesses, for this would make the treatment of disease symptoms obsolete." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Many people who currently cannot afford costly medical expenses or medical insurance tend to seek more natural, inexpensive ways of dealing with illness; or else they don't seek any treatment at all. Given the high fatality rate among people receiving medical treatment, the risk of dying from no treatment at all are actually very slim.3 The no-treatment, low fatality risk, however, would be discouraged by 'free" health care." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Even some of the largest corporations can no longer afford to pay for their sick employees' medical insurance while expanding their businesses at the same time. Just like the US at large, they borrow money to keep their companies afloat. Many are cutting back on their work force, and the employees with the worst health records are the first to go. Having established the fact that leaving the safeguarding of one's health to government agencies is a foolhardy approach, let us return to the core problem in any serious health crisis, cellular starvation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"This problem is due not only to high-tech ways of developing new medical treatments, but also to decisions about what medical insurance will cover, and for how much money. Unfortunately, an entire way of thinking about and relating to patients and their wellness has been a casualty of the new emphasis on high-tech and fast results. 210 The consequences of this focus have not hit yet, but they will. Medical schools will spend even more of medical students' time on teaching new mechanical procedures and techniques and less on teaching them how to hear you and understand how you feel and think." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"For some addicts, acupuncture helps, and a few enlightened medical insurance companies are beginning to cover it. In Oregon, heroin addicts must try acupuncture before getting methadone. The "last frontier" in recognizing how addictive a society we are comes in the attention being paid to substance abuse among the elderly. It is now estimated that 2.5 million older adults have alcohol-related problems, often missed by physicians who mistake symptoms like falling or gastritis for problems associated with aging." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If, on the other hand, you have what is called a "traditional" medical insurance plan, then you can decide when to get that second opinion and whom to consult, paying whatever portion of the charges your insurer doesn't cover. Where You Should Go for a Second Opinion The credentials and expertise of your family doctor will influence your decision about the kind of doctor you see next. If Your Doctor Is a Family Doctor You should find an internist for a second opinion if your doctor is a family practitioner." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "The second condition is if you're willing, and able, to pay for professional help. medical insurance reimbursement for psychological services is often abysmal, and psychologists—while often flexible about fees depending on your ability to pay—may not always be inexpensive. On the other hand, stress reduction therapies usually do not take very long and so the cost to you, in both time and money, will not be great. Probably the best way to find a stress management professional will be to ask a friend or relative who has used one in the past; your physician may also have suggestions." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Health has little to do with the process, except that its singular importance, combined with recent advances in medical science and changes in medical insurance, has created what is probably the greatest marketing opportunity of all time. Whether the products actually improve our health is irrelevant. This may sound harsh, but just think back to hormone replacement therapy, or the pushing of Celebrex and Vioxx as safer arthritis remedies, or the exaggerations of the cholesterol guidelines. Patients do indeed need to become medical consumers, but not just of drugs, doctors, and hospitals." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"They went to Lithuania, a country with no medical insurance, and on the basis of a controlled study determined that the whiplash syndrome simply did not exist in that country. It turned out that the prevalence of whiplash in Norway had less to do with the severity of rear-end collisions than with the fact that it was in vogue; doctors couldn't explain the epidemic and the ready availability of good medical insurance for treatment! The most important epidemics of psychosomatic disorders are those associated with pain." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"It is the system used by medical insurance companies and Medicare to decide who gets paid. Doctors have to "name" the disease they are treating based on the ICD-9 to collect their money from these agencies! The book contains the name of every single disease known. There are more than 12,000 diseases listed. The ICD-9 gives the impression that all these diseases are separate and distinct. There is only one problem. They are not. A very few fundamental problems exist that explain nearly every disease. It doesn't matter what specialty your disease falls under." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Descending into a depressed deep freeze, they locked into what they thought was their only plan: to marry in a quick ceremony, wait the obligatory three months for Ned's medical insurance to go into effect, and then visit the doctor. To protect their scheme, they shared it with no one, including their families. When the insurance kicked in and doctors finally did an examination, the tumor had grown to four centimeters, and cancer cells were found in the surrounding lymph nodes." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Governmentcreated incentives, primarily the tax treatment of employer-purchased medical insurance, have exacerbated the price spiral. Because of government wage-and-price controls during World War II, industry could not increase wages at a time of a severe labor shortage. But it could increase medical insurance benefits, and these were tax-free. This is the historical reason that medical insurance became tied to employment. If the employer is buying the policy, workers naturally want first-dollar coverage." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.)

"People are becoming more and more frustrated with the health-care system that their medical insurance covers. So they are frequently resorting to self-help methods and alternative care for answers, even though they have to foot the bill. Simply put, people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. In spite of the fact that physicians are prescribing antidepressants at record levels, alternative care is flourishing in the United States and around the world. Why?" - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"The most important reform is to sever medical insurance from employment. Insurance should be personal and portable. If you change jobs, you should be able to take your insurance with you, even if your employer paid the premiums. After all, you earned it—insurance benefits are really a substitute for higher wages. Medical insurance should also be noncancelable, like many life insurance policies are, and there should be built-in protections against unreasonable increases in premiums. In fact, most individuals and family medical insurance policies sold in the 1950s were guaranteed renewable." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.) "But it could increase medical insurance benefits, and these were tax-free. This is the historical reason that medical insurance became tied to employment. If the employer is buying the policy, workers naturally want first-dollar coverage. Out-of-pocket costs have to be paid with their own after-tax dollars, while their insurance premiums are paid with pretax dollars by their employer. And when people cannot use benefits for any purpose other than medical care, they tend to receive more medical care than they otherwise would. Tax-free medical insurance is only available to some workers." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.)

"It turned out that the prevalence of whiplash in Norway had less to do with the severity of rear-end collisions than with the fact that it was in vogue; doctors couldn't explain the epidemic and the ready availability of good medical insurance for treatment! The most important epidemics of psychosomatic disorders are those associated with pain. As will be discussed below, they have become the ailments du jour for millions of Americans." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"I am sure that her medical insurance is thrilled. There are many others who have changed to the Perfect Health program who prefer to remain anonymous. I think of the fifty-three-year-old man who could not sleep uninterruptedly through the night without his stomach giving him tremendous problems with cramps and wind. He claimed that he went through a packet of antacids in less than a week. He now sleeps through the night and hasn't touched an antacid tablet since changing his eating habits." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"If these corporations are truly worthy of "personhood" and its associated responsibilities, let them share in subsidizing health care costs for the 40% of Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. If these corporations can't put their "money where their mouth is," deny them the rights of personhood. Let them be our tools rather than our masters. We have a right (and perhaps even a duty) to revoke the charter of any corporation that fails to meet the guidelines set forth in its corporate charter." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"This went on for two and a half years at great expense, as my medical insurance would not cover me as it was a pre-condition according to them as I had previous sinus surgery." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"The medical community gives plenty of lip service to "preventive medicine" and even names its leading medical insurance plans HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations). By all appearances preventive medicine seems to be a top priority. Yet less than 1 percent of our health-care dollars are spent on so-called preventive medicine. In reality the majority of our preventive medicine programs simply attempt to detect disease earlier. For example, mammograms, chemistry profiles, and PSA tests (for prostate cancer) are all designed to detect a problem or cancer as early as possible." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"And as I previously mentioned, 87% of the doctors who determine what will be covered by your medical insurance are tied to the pharmaceutical industry. It's not just a coincidence that all natural supplements just happen to be excluded. By including them, they would be recognizing their value. That would pose a serious threat to drug manufacturers, (something they can't allow). But that's only half of the story. The other half involves the promotion of drugs, through agencies funded by the Federal Government (our tax dollars), and through private donations." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"Says Newmark, "Our workers are in fact well paid with outstanding employee benefits: medical insurance, a pension, three weeks paid vacation, a bonus equal to a month's wages, and the ability to grow food on our farm for the benefit of their families. It's a sustainable farm not just for the land, but for all species, including human." It was a good, stable situation, the kind that promoted a healthy planet, in terms of both the natural environment and the people themselves and their freedom. No wonder Costa Rica was the most democratic of all the Central American countries." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"As John McKinlay and Lisa Marceau note, "Transnational corporations involved in the globalization of medicine (pharmaceuticals, services, medical insurance, and biotechnology) generate local demand for services" (2002: 399). The pharmaceutical companies' introduction and promotion of "mild depression" as an illness in Japan has resulted in a dramatic rise in SSRI treatment since 1999 (Schulz, 2004). Furthermore, cyberspace knows no national boundaries, expediting the dissemination of medical knowledge, commercial promotion, and consumer desires." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "While we don't know specifically which factors affect the degrees of medicalization, it is likely that support of the medical profession, discovery of new etiologies, availability and profitability of treatments, coverage by medical insurance, and the presence of individuals or groups who promote or challenge medical definitions may all be significant in particular cases. There are also constraints on medicalization, including competing definitions, costs of medical care, absence of support in the medical profession, limits on insurance coverage, and the like." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"A few operate within HMO, PPO, or other medical insurance plans; most do not. Many offer a sliding scale based on financial ability Some offer a free or low-cost introductory visit or examination. Use your intuition. Remember that your 11+ million bitrper second subconscious scanning computer is already doing the evaluation! Draw on its wisdom. An initial consultation, armed with the right questions, will give you a sense of whether this is the right healing partner for you. In the course of that initial consultation, be completely frank with your prospective partner." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"While the global economy tottered, healthcare systems were strained, and medical insurance claims skyrocketed, but pharmaceutical sales boomed. Manufacturers of face masks, hand sanitizers, and emergency supplies couldn't keep pace with demand. An influenza pandemic would be far worse. It could cost 800 billion, crush many small economies, cripple some countries for decades to come, and all but collapse global trade. SARS was the first new virus of the twenty-first century. Though many mysteries remain, we learned that timely warning can avert widespread infection." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

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