There are two parts to health care. Part one is treating those who are sick and part two is preventing people from getting sick in the first place. Unfortunately part two isn’t covered by most health insurance. It is often excluded as “preventative” medicine. The rational companies use is that you aren’t sick and they are paying to get people well and you aren’t sick but trying to keep from getting sick. It is a classic Catch 22. What health care reform really needs is a common sense approach. We have to cover people who are sick but it also makes sense to keep people from getting sick in the first place.
One of the hardest things to try and get insurance companies to pay, and this includes government run programs, is diabetic counseling. Diabetes can bring on a whole slew of other problems if it isn’t kept under control. To try and help meet the needs of family and friends I went onto the Internet and found recipes and information on eating with Diabetes. I put together a 268 recipe cookbook from appetizers through desserts along with information on how to covert regular recipes into diabetic friendly ones. That is the type of information that needs to be available in counseling. Diabetics need to know how and what type of exercises to do. It even affects the type of clothing that you should wear. How to live with diabetes should be covered by health care.
We scrambled at work the other day trying to find help for a woman who had had multiple heart attacks and needed a heart monitor but it wasn’t covered by Medicaid. I live with a mother with a bad heart. People with bad heart should be monitored so that in the event of trouble starting they can be treated immediately. If you can catch the problem before it goes into a full fledged heart attack you can give people a better chance of a quality life. As with diabetics, heart patients also need to know how to eat and exercise. They need the counseling on how to adjust their life styles to compensate for the medical problems.
Stress is causing major problems in our lives and affecting our health. We need counseling to show people how to relax, how to eat, how to get a good night’s sleep without drugs. Many overly stressed people over eat or drink too much to cope. They need to learn how to eat healthy and not rely on drink or drugs to get through the stress.
Obesity is an epidemic where I live in the Midwest. You can find 3X and 4X sizes everywhere but just try finding a 4 or even a 6. The way people cook out here is contributing to the weight problems. In spite of being in the middle of farm land people still don’t know how to cook right. Obesity causes so many health problems. People need the counseling and the exercise classes to learn how to take off and keep off the excess weight that is ruining their health.
One of the hardest things to try and get insurance companies to pay, and this includes government run programs, is diabetic counseling. Diabetes can bring on a whole slew of other problems if it isn’t kept under control. To try and help meet the needs of family and friends I went onto the Internet and found recipes and information on eating with Diabetes. I put together a 268 recipe cookbook from appetizers through desserts along with information on how to covert regular recipes into diabetic friendly ones. That is the type of information that needs to be available in counseling. Diabetics need to know how and what type of exercises to do. It even affects the type of clothing that you should wear. How to live with diabetes should be covered by health care.
We scrambled at work the other day trying to find help for a woman who had had multiple heart attacks and needed a heart monitor but it wasn’t covered by Medicaid. I live with a mother with a bad heart. People with bad heart should be monitored so that in the event of trouble starting they can be treated immediately. If you can catch the problem before it goes into a full fledged heart attack you can give people a better chance of a quality life. As with diabetics, heart patients also need to know how to eat and exercise. They need the counseling on how to adjust their life styles to compensate for the medical problems.
Stress is causing major problems in our lives and affecting our health. We need counseling to show people how to relax, how to eat, how to get a good night’s sleep without drugs. Many overly stressed people over eat or drink too much to cope. They need to learn how to eat healthy and not rely on drink or drugs to get through the stress.
Obesity is an epidemic where I live in the Midwest. You can find 3X and 4X sizes everywhere but just try finding a 4 or even a 6. The way people cook out here is contributing to the weight problems. In spite of being in the middle of farm land people still don’t know how to cook right. Obesity causes so many health problems. People need the counseling and the exercise classes to learn how to take off and keep off the excess weight that is ruining their health.
So much of keeping people healthy comes down to education. People need to know how to eat right, exercise right, monitor and care for their stress levels. A common sense approach to health care reform has to have preventative medicine at its core. It is something that is not being covered by many health insurers now. The money saved in keeping people from getting sick would allow better treatment of those who are sick. Health care needs to start emphasizing not getting sick to start with.
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