[Preface: I watched Escape Fire because I'm an Integrative Health major. This is probably horrible, but please tell me how to polish it with your thoughts and ideas, I'm too fired up about all of this right now and how it all intermingles. I just want to know what I can do to help our corrupt healthcare system.]
Senator Mike Rounds:
My name is aleisha3, from Rapid Falls, SD. I have a few questions for you regarding our healthcare system.
We are in the midst of a healthcare crisis, focused on disease, big pharmaceutical companies, crooked hospitals, and insurance companies. What are you doing to help solve this problem?
The knowledge I'm wanting spread is the fact that so much money can be saved for the people if we introduced an integrative health system in our hospitals. The health of the American people would rise exponentially. Did you know in China, there are open-heart surgeries performed without any drugs, only with acupuncture? Or that in 60 hospitals in America, Reiki is performed to help heal patients? Dean Ornish performed a study and proved heart disease, the leading cause of death in America, can be reversed by a healthier lifestyle. We spend $300 billion a year on pharmaceutical drugs, almost as much as the rest of the world combined yet we rank #50 in life expectancy in the world. 65% of Americans are overweight and almost 75% of healthcare costs are spent on preventable diseases which are the major causes of disability and death in our society. Preventive healthcare is the key, yet we aren't taking any major steps towards this path. Primary care doctors could contribute immensely, but are only paid by how many patients walk through their doors. They're moving too fast, like the world around us. I can see how this idea is so detrimental to big pharmaceutical companies. The healthier America is, the less money they make. The less money they make, the less happier they are. How can we get America healthy while still keeping those companies happy with fat pockets?Or perhaps, how do we get big pharmaceutical companies less focused on money? How do we get less Congressmen swayed by crooked lobbyists?
I need to do something, and I'm not sure what I can do other than ask you and Mr. Thune. I want to help, I want the knowledge to spread, but I'm afraid that the only thing stopping the healthcare system from succeeding are these crooked hospitals, big pharma, and insurance companies. Are you aware of a single-payer tax system? Why isn't this more of a topic versus Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act? I feel it deserves recognition. What do you think?
I am so hurt by how our healthcare system is run. Why are physician's paid by procedure? Why can't they be paid a set salary? Did you know heart disease can be reversed by lifestyle alone (studies done by Dean Ornish)? Therefore, instead of a physician getting paid $1500 for placing a stint in the heart which simply alleviates symptoms for X amount of time, the same physician could spend 45 minutes with the patient in a one-on-one session and truly find how the individual can heal themselves, and then see what they need from biomedicine. Integrative health is of the future. Our system is so broken it breaks my heart.
Why should big pharmaceutical companies and big insurance companies run us? Why does money run everything around us, becoming more important than the health of the public? What could we do to have them keep making the same amount of money while fixing our healthcare system? What can I do to help change how horrible the healthcare system is? It just makes me want to become a politician, but I'm an Integrative Health major.
Kind Regards, aleisha3
References:
Cardiol, I. (2011). Acupuncture anesthesia for open heart surgery in contemporary China. Retrieved from http://ift.tt/2nppWWl
Heineman, M., & Froemke, S. (Producer), & Heineman, M., Froemke, S. (Director). (2012). Escape Fire. [Motion picture]. USA: Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate
Sacks, B. (2014). Reiki goes mainstream: Spiritual touch practice now commonplace in hospitals. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://ift.tt/2mUtgMV
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