Meridian Mag Healthcare Column
This excellent analysis by Dr. David Deardeuff covers many issues around the health care debate that are near and dear to my heart.
Here are a couple of quotes: (highlights are mine)

“Recently I sat down and knocked out, in rather short order, 23 reasons that socialized medicine is a bad approach to healthcare. When I looked over the list, it became clear that most of my items stemmed from two primary objections: lack of agency and lack of accountability. Many of the problems inherent in socialized medicine may, unfortunately, already be seen in our current insured, Medicared health care system.”

“When we lived in England, which has a socialized medical system, and my wife was going to have a baby, a doctor told her that if he delivered the baby, he would do everything possible to earn more money from it, even including doing an unnecessary Caesarian section so he could get an extra £4,000 from the government. He was honest enough to recommend we use a midwife.

Actually, it’s not all gravy for the doctor either. In exchange for their loss of agency, their charges may be heavily discounted by the insurance companies, and it can take a long time to get paid. We have had a payment delayed for two years in our office, and someone who works in a hospital accounting office once let slip that it takes a year to receive a Medicare payment. I can’t confirm that, but I don’t have any reason to doubt it.”

“…Eat simple foods that don’t have a whole list of artificial additives. President Ezra Taft Benson, as President of the Quorum of the Twelve, said, “In general, the more food we eat in its natural state and the less it is refined without additives, the healthier it will be for us.”(6) Eat fresh food, not canned or processed. Support natural, organic growers. Organic costs more, but you could make up for that by eating less — we all could. And you’d get more nutrition and less junk to insult your body and create illness.

I have seen over and over again how effective it is to “cleanse the inner vessel” according to natural methods as a vital first step to health and vigor, eat wisely according to the Word of Wisdom, and to use gentle, natural, non-intrusive methods in case of sickness — herbs, mild food, essential oils, chiropractic, acupuncture and so on. In addition, a skilled practitioner can even elicit true emotional healing — all without the need for symptom-suppressing drugs. It’s a better way to live healthy and to shake off the ever-strengthening cords of socialism.

Many of our illnesses can be prevented by healthy living. I urge you to break free of the strong cords of socialized bondage and look around at the alternatives. Live the way the Lord has counseled. Stop fighting illness and, instead, create health!”

I wholeheartedly endorse the good doctors article. Dr. Deardeuff is the co-author of the book:
Inner Transformations Using Essential Oils
Jenny Hatch