Try having Lyme for 30 years, searching avenues to health and paying out of pocket to have as normal life as possible. Besides paying high premiums for Health Insurance that I have just incase, but not using because
I use homeopathy Electric Dermal Screenings for diagnosis and remedies which also leads to alternative nutritional supplements and leads to DETOX and PARASITE CLEANSES.
When have you ever been to a doctor and he says? “Let’s do a parasite cleanse and detox.”
I’m a mental health ssid recipient in Arkansas…do y’all no how many people I have seen have luxury rehabs paid for from the plane ticket to the treatment by am better?? By blue cross blue shield…u no what Medicaid pays for rehab?? NOTHING!! I AM BEATING MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL CURRENTLY SEEKING TREATMENT FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION,BC I CANT GET IT…AND FEDERAL GRANTS? ONLY PAY FOR WHAT THEY WANT TO PAY FOR WHICH IS A JOKE OF TREATMENT IN A FACILITY THEY OWN AND OPERATE THAT MOST THE NURSES DOCTORS AND EMPLOYEES ACTIVELY USE…THEY ABSOLUTELY WONT PAY FOR PRIVATE TREATMENT…IN A DECENT FACILITY AND INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH CARE?? BAHAHA 7 DAYS …DO U HAVE ANY IDEAS HOW MESSED UP SOME OF THOSE MEDS MAKE YOU?? I WAS HIGHER OFF THE LITHIUM THEY PRESCRIBED ME AT ONE POINT THAN I’VE EVER BEEN OFF MY DRUGS OF CHOICE…WE HAVE TO DO SOME MAJOR CHANGES…AND MY DRUG OF CHOICE ? WAS PRESCRIBED IN AN OBSCENE AMOUNT FOR ME BY DOCTORS…THEY HELPED MAKE ME AN ADDICT AND NOW?? I CAN’T GET HELP… BEGGING FOR IT… BUT CANT GET IT…
I have a 5 year old non-verbal autistic grandson. It took 2 years of fighting with the Insurance companies and the healthcare system to get him a BASIC diagnosis of Autism! His care is limited because the system doesn’t understand the depth of his diagnosis. Trying to get alternate treatments, i.e. music therapy, massage therapy, holistic treatments, etc. is not possible for him because the insurance companies say there are not enough studies to prove the validity of these treatments. He is responding to music and to be able to communicate with him, even if its through song, would be miraculous!!
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I was diagnosed with MS in 1984 & just turned 67 on election day. I have no mental issues preventing me from living in my own home however, I do require physical assistance with my personal care. I don’t finacially qualify for Medicaid but I do receive Medicare. There is such a discrepancy between the 2 programs that those deemed impoverished and receive Medicaid deserve to stay in their own homes with an in-home personal assistance caregiver while those of us on Medicare must sell our homes and move to an elder care warehouse of death. In-home care is so much more affordable but for the kickbacks the Doctors & SNFs get from big pharma. I have 5 more payments on my home & I may be forced to leave my home & move into a living crypt before i make my last payment.
there is a broad range of how functional practitioners treat as having been one for 35 yrs now, back when i started we were sacrificing virgins at the full moon per a lot of my peers. It wasn’t called functional then either. “holistic” which is meaningless or alternative which is silly as we were practicing more science of regenerative medicine than giving drugs which no one has a drug deficiency for. I do believe that there should be standardized tests that are covered like GI MAP or Organic Acids or intracellular nutritional studies like Spectracell and Nutraval, or heavy metal and toxic load studies. I think there will have to be some reorganization that says those tests and the treatment aren’t just a functional medicine provider they are pertinent to ALL medical professionals and we should be covered like anyone in the medicine but those of us that are functional will have specialty in these areas for treatment until the rest of the profession catches up. Not sure that there is enough standardization among functional providers to call us a specialty like cardiology yet and have insurance cover ALL functional practitioners . i have encountered a lot of “functional practitioners” that have screwed it up royally for those of us in the field over the years.
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Yes there should be coverage for naturopathic medicine and treatments
I work in pharmacy and my doctor and i just had this conversation. I had been on mounjaro and gotten incredible results. When the coupons ran out i couldn’t afford the over 600 monthly payment. My health was better, my numbers were better, and i over all felt better. When she tried to get it thru my insurance they denied me because they won’t pay for obesity but they will for diabetes. They would rather wait until someone gets bad enough to have diabetes than help with the symptoms that get them there.
Senior citizens over the age of 65 should have free healthcare!
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but if you had incredible results then why couldn’t it be maintained off a drug that is where its an issue if you can’t do it without a drug then the problem wasn’t solved its just pathology management which is what the drug companies want lifelong customers, the gut flora of a diabetic or prediabetic with what they are eating and exercise issues are the primary problems and ALL three can in most cases be controlled and fixed. Get a good functional practitioner and fix your gut. people don’t get that the bacteria in you gut can cause any number of autoimmune and chronic disease. with fecal transplant we have reversed many issues but its not allowed except in some instances in US. So have someone who knows what they are doing help kill of the bacteria that keep things going the wrong direction stay tight on a GMO free diet as this is what caused most of the illness people have nothing like Roundup ulcerating the gut and trend it to diabetes and celiac( by the way all the numbers are there google correlation GMO’s and chronic disease and hit images), stop the pathology management vs ask us all to shoulder the burden of what drug companies do to us make us addicted to their drugs.
My daughter has been sick for 15 years. No doctor could help us figure it out. After at least 7 years we finally found out that she has extreme levels of glyphosate in her body. She also has Lyme markers and high amount of mycotoxins. She is unable to work because of fatigue and pain. She is only treated with alternative medicine so her insurance won’t cover it. My husband has been successful in his business so we can help her and pay the thousands of $$ for her treatments but it’s taking its toll and she doesn’t get any better. But like you said others may not be able to pay for things not covered by insurance or go to doctors that actually know how to diagnose and treat these environmental illnesses.
Yes!
Medical schools do have seminars on various alternative modalities, but they are little more than a token nod to an entirely different paradigm that is often merely an opportunity for the medical students to take a nap or daydream.
How can I say this? I taught a few of these courses.
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Compounded drugs need to be covered under health insurance. Currently they are not covered because big pharma doesn’t make money on them. I’ve been using compounded medication for years and paying out of pocket.
Pretreatment estimates need to go. When a doctor decides to change a medication from one brand to another and my insurance company wants me to try three others prior to approving it is BS. They’re not my doctor. An employee making $12.00 an hour shouldn’t be dictating what I need and do t need for my condition.
With Trump planning on cleaning the streets of drugs, especially drugs like heroin/fentanyl - we must prepare for the high influx of patients showing up at drug detoxes and drug rehabs. I worked with a program in NYC where addicts could bring and safely dispose of their drug use related items and pick up new ones. What shocked me the most, was how many professionals and every day people used this service. When you think “drug addict” you often think homeless, troubled, in and out of jail…but it’s nothing like I expected. I would say the majority, probably 60% or more, were people with full-time jobs, families, etc
Many pain patients lost access to their pain medications due to their doctor’s being monitored after the Oxycontin and opiate epidemic. Many people who still needed these pharmaceuticals to function were unable to access them from one day to the next.
These people had to resort to using street drugs and now your local librarian, your neighbor, your boss, are literally using these drugs like it’s medication and functioning right along side of us, and most of us know nothing about it. It’s a sad situation all around but what is more sad is the care given to people at detox facilities. The people who do want to stop have very few options, and I think holistic care in conjunction with better and more options for care, would be a huge step in the right direction.
My dad is currently getting intravenous vitamin C treatments for cancer. The research is promising and the costs should be covered by insurance.
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NO, phase out all Medicare and Medicaid - let people keep their money, remove Federal Government from healthcare = back to private, community. See US Healthcare Costs & Admin Overhead to Physician Growth - HEALTH CHAMPIONING SOLUTIONS review government impact
My daughter is currently in Grad School for PT. She currently had a course to introduce them to pharmaceuticals. She will never use the info and doesn’t understand why they have to take this course.
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Consider voting for this one which would help the insurance issue:
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Right on 
Once a month for decades, a patient will break down into tears of joy in my clinic because they were told by the authority figures with white coats that their problem was incurable and some gentle needling and massage fixed it in just a few treatments.