THIS POLICY IS NOT EASY TO IMPLEMENT! I left my practice as a nurse and professor because I know that most of what I teach is not based on evidence, because the majority of evidence about most chronic disease has been left out of all medical curriculum. What little we do teach about it leaves out 2000 years of acupuncture/Chinese herbs, and so many other thoroughly researched holistic ways to prevent disease. How can you use insurance to cover these methods without sending doctors and nurses back to college to relearn all the research that was left out of their curriculum?
The only way I see this policy working is for insurances that are only holistic oriented to compete with the western medical insurance policies so people can take their pick. You canāt possibly mix them all under one umbrella because then you allow a western oriented mindset to tell holistic practitioners what they can and cannot do. I can only see FDA and government taking away what we do behind the scenes to keep people healthy in that case, because they would want to regulate what they do not understand. As a holistic practitioner please do NOT allow our practice to be regulated by western medicine!!!
Insurance-driven policies in work places has ruined our physician and nurse work in western medicine already. I learned in college how to delegate and that a nurse has to be rigorous in how he/she follows up-I had to know this for my board exams and licensure. Thenā¦ā¦insurance-driven hospital procedure ripped that all away from me as it asked me time and again to leave certain things for CNAs and only do other aspects of a nurseās role. According to my license, I broke ethical boundaries in my hospital work all the time, just because the insurance demanded different things from the hospital than my license did. Do not put that onto holistic practices please!!!
Insurance is outrageous. It may be better to get insurance out of medical care altogether. I will agree that there needs to be a way to make sure that the public can trust doctors, but if doctors have to pay high insurance, they pass the cost onto us and itās just not working.
I wholeheartedly agree with these recommendations. I have seen numerous people completely reverse chronic conditions by weaning away from years (& even decades) on pharmaceutical drugs, through the use of
alternative protocols, therapies and nutraceuticals. Unfortunately many more were prevented from pursuing these changes because they couldnāt afford them, or werenāt covered by insurance plansā¦ P.S. Medical schools should be mandated to spend substantial amount of time teaching nutrition.
We also need more emphasis on physical therapy! Many times patients have to go though doctors and try medicines and procedures that may not help at all! Physical therapists are doctors of their field (DPT) and can treat many other ailments and illnesses than just musculoskeletal! Insurances, doctors, and pharma are the reason PTs donāt have direct access and cant order imaging. PT can help with so much more than we realize!
Yes, let us decide who and what about our health and where are money is used. Most are into vitamins and supplements but health insurance does not cover. You go to a Natural Grocer and the cost of good for you foods are so expensive. This needs to change.
and on the other end, my friendās grandfather had diabetes a major part of his life. His neighbor from mexico put him on to some Root of something tea for him to drink daily which CURED the diabetes and restored so many things that diabetes had started to destroy!
iām still trying to find out which tea this was but Iāve heard stories of people going to mexico and being healed naturally where in the US they only got worse and were stuck on pills piled on pills!