Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The second condition is if you're willing, and able, to pay for professional help. medical insurance reimbursement for psychological services is often abysmal, and psychologists—while often flexible about fees depending on your ability to pay—may not always be inexpensive. On the other hand, stress reduction therapies usually do not take very long and so the cost to you, in both time and money, will not be great. Probably the best way to find a stress management professional will be to ask a friend or relative who has used one in the past; your physician may also have suggestions. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| If these corporations are truly worthy of "personhood" and its associated responsibilities, let them share in subsidizing health care costs for the 40% of Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. If these corporations can't put their "money where their mouth is," deny them the rights of personhood. Let them be our tools rather than our masters. We have a right (and perhaps even a duty) to revoke the charter of any corporation that fails to meet the guidelines set forth in its corporate charter. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 They went to Lithuania, a country with no medical insurance, and on the basis of a controlled study determined that the whiplash syndrome simply did not exist in that country. It turned out that the prevalence of whiplash in Norway had less to do with the severity of rear-end collisions than with the fact that it was in vogue; doctors couldn't explain the epidemic and the ready availability of good medical insurance for treatment!
The most important epidemics of psychosomatic disorders are those associated with pain. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| This problem is due not only to high-tech ways of developing new medical treatments, but also to decisions about what medical insurance will cover, and for how much money. Unfortunately, an entire way of thinking about and relating to patients and their wellness has been a casualty of the new emphasis on high-tech and fast results.
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The consequences of this focus have not hit yet, but they will. Medical schools will spend even more of medical students' time on teaching new mechanical procedures and techniques and less on teaching them how to hear you and understand how you feel and think. |
| The mechanics of getting a second opinion depend on either the type of medical insurance you have or your willingness to pay out of pocket. If you belong to an HMO, your primary care provider acts as a "gatekeeper," the only person who can grant you access to medical services beyond those he or she provides (including specialists). So the actual referral has to come from your doctor, even though you asked him or her to provide it. Another limitation of the HMO is that the doctor you would like to see may not be on the HMO's approved doctor list. |
| If, on the other hand, you have what is called a "traditional" medical insurance plan, then you can decide when to get that second opinion and whom to consult, paying whatever portion of the charges your insurer doesn't cover.
Where You Should Go for a Second Opinion
The credentials and expertise of your family doctor will influence your decision about the kind of doctor you see next.
If Your Doctor Is a Family Doctor
You should find an internist for a second opinion if your doctor is a family practitioner. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Half of personal bankruptcies are now due to the high cost of medical insurance and health care. Employers can no longer afford medical insurance and remain competitive in the global marketplace. You see, a lot of jobs are leaving the country simply because the health care and health insurance costs are skyrocketing to the point where we can't compete in the global economy.
Organized medicine has given us a system of disease and bankruptcy, and all it can do is worry about the "pretty scary" side effects of alternative therapies that might actually help people be healthy. |
Ray D. Strand
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 The medical community gives plenty of lip service to "preventive medicine" and even names its leading medical insurance plans HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations). By all appearances preventive medicine seems to be a top priority.
Yet less than 1 percent of our health-care dollars are spent on so-called preventive medicine. In reality the majority of our preventive medicine programs simply attempt to detect disease earlier. For example, mammograms, chemistry profiles, and PSA tests (for prostate cancer) are all designed to detect a problem or cancer as early as possible. |
| People are becoming more and more frustrated with the health-care system that their medical insurance covers. So they are frequently resorting to self-help methods and alternative care for answers, even though they have to foot the bill. Simply put, people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. In spite of the fact that physicians are prescribing antidepressants at record levels, alternative care is flourishing in the United States and around the world.
Why? |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 For some addicts, acupuncture helps, and a few enlightened medical insurance companies are beginning to cover it. In Oregon, heroin addicts must try acupuncture before getting methadone.
The "last frontier" in recognizing how addictive a society we are comes in the attention being paid to substance abuse among the elderly. It is now estimated that 2.5 million older adults have alcohol-related problems, often missed by physicians who mistake symptoms like falling or gastritis for problems associated with aging. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Billions of dollars are spent each year out of pocket since medical insurance often does not cover these nonconventional approaches.
People are beginning to realize that the Western biomedical model neglects fundamental facets of the healing experience, namely, its narrative and relational aspects. When patients see the inadequacies of Western medicine up close—a misdiagnosis, a drug with negative side effects, botched surgery, even a dismissive doctor—many find the experience disillusioning. |
Dawson Church
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 A few operate within HMO, PPO, or other medical insurance plans; most do not. Many offer a sliding scale based on financial ability Some offer a free or low-cost introductory visit or examination.
Use your intuition. Remember that your 11+ million bitrper second subconscious scanning computer is already doing the evaluation! Draw on its wisdom. An initial consultation, armed with the right questions, will give you a sense of whether this is the right healing partner for you.
In the course of that initial consultation, be completely frank with your prospective partner. |
David Steinman
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 Says Newmark, "Our workers are in fact well paid with outstanding employee benefits: medical insurance, a pension, three weeks paid vacation, a bonus equal to a month's wages, and the ability to grow food on our farm for the benefit of their families. It's a sustainable farm not just for the land, but for all species, including human." It was a good, stable situation, the kind that promoted a healthy planet, in terms of both the natural environment and the people themselves and their freedom. No wonder Costa Rica was the most democratic of all the Central American countries. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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| It turned out that the prevalence of whiplash in Norway had less to do with the severity of rear-end collisions than with the fact that it was in vogue; doctors couldn't explain the epidemic and the ready availability of good medical insurance for treatment!
The most important epidemics of psychosomatic disorders are those associated with pain. As will be discussed below, they have become the ailments du jour for millions of Americans. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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 The most important reform is to sever medical insurance from employment. Insurance should be personal and portable. If you change jobs, you should be able to take your insurance with you, even if your employer paid the premiums. After all, you earned it—insurance benefits are really a substitute for higher wages.
Medical insurance should also be noncancelable, like many life insurance policies are, and there should be built-in protections against unreasonable increases in premiums. In fact, most individuals and family medical insurance policies sold in the 1950s were guaranteed renewable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And whether or not there's medical insurance and malpractice insurance in effect at the time of your surgery doesn't affect your outcome. All it does is it gives people a chance to sue when they don't get the outcome they want.
Personally, I'm against radical Western surgical procedures to begin with, especially things like gastric bypass surgery. I think surgery should only be a last resort, and should never be used to treat chronic diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes or heart disease. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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| But it could increase medical insurance benefits, and these were tax-free. This is the historical reason that medical insurance became tied to employment.
If the employer is buying the policy, workers naturally want first-dollar coverage. Out-of-pocket costs have to be paid with their own after-tax dollars, while their insurance premiums are paid with pretax dollars by their employer. And when people cannot use benefits for any purpose other than medical care, they tend to receive more medical care than they otherwise would.
Tax-free medical insurance is only available to some workers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Employers can no longer afford medical insurance and remain competitive in the global marketplace. You see, a lot of jobs are leaving the country simply because the health care and health insurance costs are skyrocketing to the point where we can't compete in the global economy.
Organized medicine has given us a system of disease and bankruptcy, and all it can do is worry about the "pretty scary" side effects of alternative therapies that might actually help people be healthy. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 This went on for two and a half years at great expense, as my medical insurance would not cover me as it was a pre-condition according to them as I had previous sinus surgery. |
| I am sure that her medical insurance is thrilled.
There are many others who have changed to the Perfect Health program who prefer to remain anonymous. I think of the fifty-three-year-old man who could not sleep uninterruptedly through the night without his stomach giving him tremendous problems with cramps and wind. He claimed that he went through a packet of antacids in less than a week. He now sleeps through the night and hasn't touched an antacid tablet since changing his eating habits. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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| Governmentcreated incentives, primarily the tax treatment of employer-purchased medical insurance, have exacerbated the price spiral. Because of government wage-and-price controls during World War II, industry could not increase wages at a time of a severe labor shortage. But it could increase medical insurance benefits, and these were tax-free. This is the historical reason that medical insurance became tied to employment.
If the employer is buying the policy, workers naturally want first-dollar coverage. |
Gary Null
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| From what I've seen, if the ads aren't trying to sell them a drug, medical insurance, or legal services in case they fall, they're portraying seniors as people on the last leg of their journey through life who are now in need of diapers (for themselves) as they experience their single joy in life—their grandchildren. And these images surround us wherever we look. I'm a grandfather and I love my grandchildren, but my life remains ever-expanding with purpose because I know in my heart, as well as intellectually, that if I'm not growing, I'm dying. |
Martin L. Cross
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 The CMP would have virtually full authority over the delivery of health care, including hospital usage and budget, medical insurance, physician activity and medical quality, and any fee setting that's necessary.
Most important, everyone who lives in the area would automatically he covered with medical insurance from the moment they are horn. And each of the residents would have total freedom to see any physician in the area they wish, including specialists, and be a patient in any of the hospitals. |
Brian O'Leary
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 Unfortunately, holistic health care, natural medications and organic produce are beyond the financial reach of most of us, and this fact argues for universal medical insurance in which the individual can chose his or her own modality, food and medicine. Opening these choices would be a task for the global green republic.
My extensive scientific research over the past two decades supports the credibility of consciousness medicine, healing by prayer, and mind-over-matter experiments which have been ignored by the mainstream. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Some patients may elect to stay within their medical insurance plans and feel that this is adequate for them. I believe that as long as the patient and his partner are aware of the issues in this entire process, they have the right to do as they wish. As one physician I know says, "Everyone has the right to make their own wrong decisions."
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) at the Time of Diagnosis
LUTS will often adversely affect the quality of life of a patient undergoing RT of any kind or cryosurgery. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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| Chronic pain fits these criteria admirably, which explains the persistent inability of medicine to make any inroads on the problem. The medical profession bears a heavy responsibility for this and for the other epidemics. On the simplest level, it has violated one of its most fundamental medical admonitions: do no harm.
In truth, American medicine has done enormous harm. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 At the same time, herbal remedies are recommended by physicians on the condition that patients pay for the products themselves (Dreikorn, 2002), as most phytomedicines are usually not covered by conventional medical insurance plans. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 Medical insurance tends to cover payment for hair studies in some states, but only if they are done to rule out possible lead poisoning.
• Some special laboratory tests can evaluate the basic metabolism in the body.116'117 They can tell if the function of the liver or intestines, for example, is normal and they can do a number of tests to determine if the sequence in the so called metabolic pathways are in some way not functioning up to par. Your body has pathways to make what the body needs from what is supplied to it. |
John Robbins
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 She delivered babies at home when the mothers wanted her to do so, billed her patients less than any other doctor, and accepted poor patients on medical insurance when the other doctors chose to reject them.
She also dared to speak out when she saw her fellow physicians treating patients with a lack of respect. "I had a case," she recalls, "where I had called in an obstetrician for a second opinion. These two had never met before, but he marches in, throws off her covering, and makes to plunge [his hand into her vagina]. I caught his hand in midair. I said, 'Dr. So-and-So, this is Mrs. |
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