How Would The Two Political Parties Address My Health Issues? Options

[Craig Minowa]

Here's a question sent to us from one of our readers via email. If any of you have ideas about the answer, please post here:

This is in regard to the debate between the 2 parties over the health plan.
What would be the difference in treating a person with a long term illness?
Would they select their own doctor and treatment plan in both cases? The difference then being how to pay the bill? Suppose that person had no tax credits and was on Social Security?

If the government was paying the bill I can see how doctors would take advantage of this situation. They are probably doing this with the present Medicare? I wouldn't know, as I have never used any Medicare or private insurance. I don't need any as I eat all natural foods and I'm still active and healthy at age 86. I take no prescriptions and have no pain. I live alone in a small home which has NO mortgage. I paid cash for it after I sold the home where my husband died.

Last week I planted 3 more dwarf fruit trees so I now have 12 of various kinds. I COOK my food and don't eat out of a box. I home can, dry, and freeze my surplus summer foods. Just like your great-grandmother used to do. I grow a small vegetable garden and also a medicinal herb garden.
Everything is organic. I've studied herbs for some years. I grew up during the Depression of the 30s and I can do it again. People can be surprised how many things they can do without when it comes down to food.
But we NEED the small organic farmers. I'm thankful I found your web site Keep up the good work. I have told several friends about your site..

P.S. I sure hope that NAIS bill isn't passed. I signed your petition.
I'm also sending a letter out to Pres. Obama and my congressmen

C. Ruth. C

[allnaturalme]

I do not have the answer to Ruth's question but I would like to send her my respect and admiration!


Ruth,

You are the lady I aspire to be. At thirty, I have a lot to learn and hope to improve with age and learn more sustainable skills. I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed in the health area. I do stay relatively healthy, except I've had a bit of bad luck in the dental department. Would love to hear your philosophy with your teeth.

Kudos to the gardens and I just have to say, I'm completely jealous of your fruit tree collection. Thank you for sharing. I am going to think of you often when Dreg & I go house shopping as you have reminded me of what's so important... a yard!

Much much love!
Sadie from allnaturalme.com

[Sah-Veel']

Here's a question sent to us from one of our readers via email. If any of you have ideas about the answer, please post here:

This is in regard to the debate between the 2 parties over the health plan.
What would be the difference in treating a person with a long term illness?
Would they select their own doctor and treatment plan in both cases? The difference then being how to pay the bill? Suppose that person had no tax credits and was on Social Security?

If the government was paying the bill I can see how doctors would take advantage of this situation. They are probably doing this with the present Medicare? I wouldn't know, as I have never used any Medicare or private insurance. I don't need any as I eat all natural foods and I'm still active and healthy at age 86. I take no prescriptions and have no pain. I live alone in a small home which has NO mortgage. I paid cash for it after I sold the home where my husband died.

Last week I planted 3 more dwarf fruit trees so I now have 12 of various kinds. I COOK my food and don't eat out of a box. I home can, dry, and freeze my surplus summer foods. Just like your great-grandmother used to do. I grow a small vegetable garden and also a medicinal herb garden.
Everything is organic. I've studied herbs for some years. I grew up during the Depression of the 30s and I can do it again. People can be surprised how many things they can do without when it comes down to food.
But we NEED the small organic farmers. I'm thankful I found your web site Keep up the good work. I have told several friends about your site..

P.S. I sure hope that NAIS bill isn't passed. I signed your petition.
I'm also sending a letter out to Pres. Obama and my congressmen

C. Ruth. C

[Sah-Veel']

62 years old last week, I am the generation between Ruth and Sadie. It is heartening to know of them, and I cheer you both on with 'You go, girls!' I have spent the last 30 years trying to recreate my grandma’s kitchen for my own family, and anyone else who shares our meals. In fact, I’m skipping my mother, and have turned directly into my grandmother. I marvel at how much I have been influenced in nearly daily memories of her over the years, and, with chagrin, admit to the little regard I recall having had during my childhood of what became her enormous influence in my life and resulting contribution to my present health and well-being.

My grandma, a Dakota Territory homesteader and one-room school teacher, recognized all bounty from her garden as food and didn’t have the money or the inclination to go to the grocery store for things she could grow and prepare herself . . .more

I think Ruth is spot-on in her question about doctors and billing abuses in the present U.S. health care system. The broken health care system extends to very expensive diagnostic machinery, pharmaceutical abuse, compromised research studies and childhood education. At least the docs (and angels disguised as nurses) are actually caring for elderly folks, and their prices may be inordinately high because they send out a lot of bills that are not able to be paid.

I, thankfully, have never needed the 'health care system' and am one of the millions of uninsured Americans. Except in the event of crises management, there is little mainstream medicine offers to better my life. I have, though, spent as much through the years on good eats, herbals and natural methods as simple insurance premiums would have cost me. Under current requirements for care, it is much better to be destitute or be able to pay for expensive private insurance unless you hold a job with 'health benefits'.

Frankly, the BASIC issue in my mind is a re-evaluation of the value of real, good FOOD that is nutrient-dense, as unprocessed as possible and available locally from sustainable sources. I am frustrated by so much of mainstream media as they report on topics over and over and over in blindsided language and with repeating perspective. In practically every news headliner today there is a missed opportunity to get the TRUTH out there. I, for one, will continue to do so.