"Healthcare for People, Not Profit"

[OneGrassRoot]

Great article, which I'm sharing here rather than GD due to the focus on alternative healthcare.

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"...In addition, none of the alternative healthcare treatments that helped my body’s own healing process and significantly eased my symptoms were covered by my insurance. Alternative healthcare is often less expensive than conventional medicine and is much better for preventing illness. With its proven treatment value and the comparative rising cost of conventional medicine, one third of all Americans now use alternative medicines and tend to visit alternative healthcare practitioners more often than conventional doctors. Alternative healthcare has been at least half of the recipe to my recovery.

While the government fumbles over legislation to provide this basic safety net that most developed countries guarantee all their citizens, innovative grassroots projects have jumped in to fill the gap. One such project in San Francisco, Adaptogen, that I have volunteered at is a monthly community alternative healthcare clinic providing unlimited visits to professional healers like naturopaths, herbalists, and bodyworkers for a sliding scale admission fee. The event offers tea service, healthy meals, and a talk on alternative healthcare."

FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.shareable.net/blog/healthcare-for-people-not-profit

[Celebration]

1. ah, thanks!

I have all kinds of conflicted feelings about health care, because I think it could be delivered so much more efficiently. My pet peeve is that the government won't negotiate drug prices. Okay so we have this huge deficit and we can't negotiate drug prices? And, there are (at least currently) really effective cheaper herbals that could be used as medication. Plus there are tons of preventive things that can be used that are cheap. I just posted something today in health about bone density being significantly helped by prunes. I am definitely NOT against conventional medicine, but that doesn't mean that I completely trust it. And tons of stuff that would NEVER be covered by insurance has helped me and my family.

My daughter lives in Washington state, and her health insurance covers naturopath, acupuncture, and massage. Wow.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Hip-Hip-Hurray!!

Just what the US needs.. I hope they start cropping up everywhere!