Insurance companies should cover holistic approaches instead of forcing people to pay out of pocket for a different view.
There has been many proven holistic medical care that has been effective over medications that continue to make us sick! Modern doctors should perform all the same blood test if requested as the holistic doctors and offer people different methods instead of pushing pills.
Also, ending vaccine mandates for schools, jobs, and military, military members should not be forced to take the flu vaccination every year.
Of course I agree that people ahould be allowed to avail themselves of what should be termed “Whole-istic” treatments (as “holistic” implies a reatriction to faith-based treatments).
If the government can rule that pre-existing conditions must be covered, the government is already controlling a private industry; so there is a precident for this.
Moreover, chiorpractic procedures and diet management might be considered to fall into this category, and they’re already covered by some insurance plans to some extent.
The extension of this consideration is the government potentially banning naturally occuring substances such as ephedra plants…then placing restrictions on Sudafed, for instance.
Ivermectin was possibly another recent issue the people won, which had previously been restricted to prescription use.
Such government restrictions are key to defining what is a “holistic” treatment.
Government restrictions of certain naturally occuring substances, for instance, substances used in Chinese medicine, could be pivotal in such legislation, retaining restrictions on some “holistic” treatments by substance.
There are, for instance, also medical restrictions on the prescription of hyperbaric treatments as medically unnecessary or even harmful. This might fall into the realm of being considered a “holistic” treatment.
These are issues that need some ironing out, requisite to mandating insurance companies cover “holistic” procedures.
Insurance and medicine SEEM TO BE more a collection of monetary and legal issues rather than health centric.
But the bigger problem is that holistic medicine goes against the FDA, so to do this the FDA has to relinquish their strong hold. pharmaceutical lobbyist push for petroleum based drugs. Doctors would have to be reeducated to understand the holistic approach.
There should be better schools for learning the holistic ways.
Naturopathy and phytomedicine, nutraceuticals (herbs, supplements)
All of these alternative medical modalities have helped me. Chiropracty did not help me at all, even though its covered in some cases by insurance. I think it’s dumb that chiro is covered by massage is not
And that physical therapy is covered, but massage is not.
To answer this question from within the existing paradigm is to tweak but perpetuate the paradigm that fundamentally has failed us all. Simply “paying for it” doesn’t guarantee utilization.
What if States employed a dedicated team of teachers/trainers to incorporate natural health principles in school “health class” and “science” curriculum, offered free adult education courses in health promotion and restoration at the local libraries, and broadcast natural health public service announcements.
Given what pharmaceutical corporations have done & are doing, we all know they don’t make money off of healthy people. They own & bribe politicians & doctors. So many I know are turning to Holistic & Natural remedies. We need a broader base of doctors available that specialize in this & most definitely Insurance that would cover it. People also need to be educated on the benefits of Holistic & Natural treatments.
The FDA has to go. The commercial speech law has a gag order on anyone who stands to make profit from teaching holistic care.
Holistic programs are becoming slowly available on health plans. Check into Clear Share as one example. We do need more options and incentives to help Americans practice preventative health care.
This will be a complete shift in the current system and it all starts with education, awareness, and people to understand they do have options in health care.
I do not mind paying for holistic doctors/dentists IF I can get a full tax deduction. As it works now, only insurance premiums are deductible. And medical out of pocket becomes a deduction at the point of a major disaster not for normally caring for yourself
Diet and exercise are actually legitimate medical claims, according to Dr. Callie Means. It is 100% legal and honorable to prescribe diet and exercise BEFORE medications and injections for health.
The way out is away from big corp insurance controlling what we can do! I have been using a self pay MD and they get discounted rates for labs but the treatment orders would never be covered under insurance!! Functional root cause holistic medicine is a must for optimal health and insurance doesn’t cover most of the labs needed for that or are so costly! We need a wellness model, away from the algorithm model that insurance will cover or a better cost! I prefer essential oils, herbs, good nutrition, checking my vitamins/mineral lab, I want to do a functional lab/genetic but it’s costly!! Insurance should be forced to cover all aspects a patient requests!