Angels in health care and in prevention
Health Care and Angels equals civic volunteerism and preventation.

Human beings are to a large degree accountable for their own physical condition. A person in an unhealthy stressful setting can choose to remove him or herself from that location and decrease the tension associated with physical health problems like heart disease. Habitual patterns can have cumulative consequences, like smoking and cancer or repetitive motion injury and physical discomfort.

Healthy foods combined with a loving environment are best for a natural biological classroom. Using your DNA and willpower you can create a real-time mental, emotional and physical medium to carry your soul about while on this earth. Every one of us, to some extent, is being inspired to advance on a balanced path, a flowing stream of consciousness to gain realized health in mind, body and soul.

You are in charge of the ultimate course you take. You are the being, who is paddling your solo craft along this meandering tributary of time. Will power directs your physical body through this reality dimension. So you and you alone are responsible for the positive captaining of your vehicles physical condition. Do not expect some HMO to take care of you.

God prepared you to be solely responsible, God created doctors also, physicians who heal and rehabilitate. God produced health care personnel, dedicated therapists and nurses who are healers. Father and Mother God have provided us with numerous ways motivated humans can facilitate healing, from prayer to surgery. Next time you are in a hospital or convalescent home see how many staff persons are wearing a modest angel pin with honor.

At this time existing prevention healthcare technologies and routine prenatal services are abundantly beneficial when measured against a lifetime of profound disability exacerbated with an astronomic monetary expense.

When America's largest population group gets older, as the baby boomers age, our existing traditional health care systems are going to be swiftly venturing into dramatic new arenas, those who have and those who have not.

Right now, hundreds of thousands of personnel working within America’s health care industry are themselves without medical coverage. Health care staff in lower reimbursement positions are frequently without any medical coverage at all. How can a system that provides health care fail to provide coverage to its employees? Because the profit comes first, before their own employee's health even if the employees are providing the billable healthcare and making a generous profit for the healthcare organization.

Today in the U.S.A. if you are in the health care industry and you do not make a substantial profit you are history, also the larger your organization the greater the opportunity for financial gain. Do not expect some gigantic Health Maintenance Organization (H.M.O.) to come out and save your body when you have a serious illness. They do not care. You are referred to as an “income stream”. Actually, if you really demanded proper service they want you and all of your kind to go enroll at their biggest competitors, right away. They recognize you will require expensive services and diminish or even do away with their profit. When HMOs provide meager services it encourages those in grave need to become disgruntled and seek a new provider. This is precisely how the most financially lucrative HMOs function and grow.

If you avoid their HMO and their competitor deteriorates they may expand and have an even stronger grasp on that specific geographical region as a result. This requires a costly and extensive advertising promotion to continuously recruit fresh HMO purchasers. This is essential, as each day a certain quantity of members are exiting the system because of disappointing service or passing on unaware of their true health status.

One money saving industry method is to embellish service to the greatest number of enrollees who don’t cost too much and do the least amount they can legally get away with for those individuals that need pricey service.

Another even shoddier health care commerce practice is the horrendous officialdom calculated to preserve a massive documentation python squeeze. Bureaucracy ego trips, to keep the reimbursements flowing that devour more of the doctors; nurses and therapists extremely limited direct patient care time. An absurd and swelling officialdom reduces the tangible health care time doctors directly can spend with their patients.

The end consequence is a highly trained, highly frustrated workforce of dedicated health care human resources not having the time to provide aide for those patients who urgently need them because Nurses are doing volumes of patient charting while the patients lay dying of starvation, dehydration, infections, and acute bedsores.

With today's supercomputer equipment, exceedingly rapidly the bureaucracies of billings, payments, authorizations and justifications result with an ultra slow motion iron death grip. A medical scheme squeezed by numerous layers of commercial bureaucracies, computer-billing bureaucracies, banking bureaucracies, federal and state rival bureaucracies and state contractors all within a decidedly litigious environment. A man made situation distressing the physical condition of millions of suffering and dying American tax-paying citizens. I have witnessed this debacle on numerous occasions. I am unable to express my own anguish at our national disgrace, a scandal orchestrated out of pure greed.

If gargantuan health care insurers and HMO's can make it sluggish enough and complicated enough to get reimbursed, scores of health care providers will stop providing services with a result that will help keep overhead down and profits up. Today in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of loving and experienced pharmacists, nurses, therapists and doctors who have walked away from their professions because of the difficulty in providing ethical services. This trend results with a growing portion of the remaining health care providers who will do anything to get their reimbursement check.

If you are a highly ethical M.D. there are few places to function within this nations healthcare war zone. The lower the operating cost the higher the earnings for the company, its administrators, its officers and stockholders. There are good guys and there are bad guys out there who claim to be selling you a secure worry free future.

Who does not desire health care? Who does not desire quality health? Who requests pain and suffering? Imagine how much money would be saved if everyone recognized health care coverage as a civil right, instead of marketing health care through privately held profit-oriented companies. The immediate savings would be 200 Billion dollars.


Imagine how much more health care could be provided with the exact same amount of money we are currently spending… two hundred Billion Dollars. How much pain and agony could be avoided for every life long tax-paying citizen?

Does the United States really need huge capitalistic profit focused health care bureaucracies? Does our nation in truth desire financial schemes to suck billions and billions of dollars every year in profit out of us while we are ill and dying? Does the premier nation of the free world lead by consistently reducing the needed health care service while documenting everything into oblivion to avoid legal liability? I don’t think so.

When you were born into this humanity how much control did you have over your inherited composition? I challenge you to donate 4 hours of volunteer time in a special school for developmentally disabled where you will swiftly comprehend, there but for the grace of God go I.

We, each and every one of us, deserve complete health coverage inside these United States. We all have each paid sufficient taxes to do just about everything else everywhere else. At this moment your tax dollars subsidize the growth of cigarette tobacco and land mines in impoverished 3rd world countries. Isn't it time we valued our own physical health, as citizens of this powerful country, proclaiming health care as a right, a right for the health of our nation?

Closely scrutinize the fact, preventative health is ultra inexpensive compared to the actual realized cost at the completion of just one single life span of grave illness. By and large the more ailing you are the more disposed you are to spend whatever money you have on a cure, therefore the greater the demand the higher the earnings margin for the remedy. Example: 24 hours per day, 365 days per year repeated slickly produced commercials are broadcast across this country of stereo/color TV advertising where a person is depicted overindulging in foods or various other unhealthy habits.

These 30-second communication scud missiles are scientifically designed with embedded hard-core behavior modification and state of the art hypnotic techniques to manipulate the relaxed viewer with subliminal messages to purchase the products using a person in the commercial the viewer can relate to. Why not make your home a cannibal cafeteria? History has recorded evidence; the first use of a regularly scheduled repetitive program was produced and broadcast by the media arm of Adolph Hitler. More people are watching additional television of lower quality and complain there is nothing good on, yet they sit there with the clicker grazing the multiple channels attempting to get satisfaction. You do not need to go to a hypnotist to get hypnotized. The hypnotist will come to you.

The associated healthcare product also being mass marketed can mask the symptoms and allow them to continue the unhealthful habit pattern and prolong the sale of the targeted products. How much money would stop flowing into that niche industry, if each person decided to use their own will power and avoid the unhealthful foods or unhealthy habits?

Stopping our unhealthy habitual patterns would bring financial ruin to the manufacturers by reducing long-term repetitive sales of unhealthy foods, and would also cause the medical remedy and related medical needs to plummet from prosperity. These quickly expanding markets of unhealthy foods and products keep pace with the increase in profits of related medications and remedies. The higher rate of new tobacco users correlates unswervingly with the higher use of smoking cessation products and lung cancer related expenditures. Another case in point of the media merry go-round is repetitive TV commercials selling indigestion medications placed in the same market grouping where greasy and sugary fast food and drink are promoted.

With that financially driven state of affairs your elected representative and spokesperson may be hesitant to take ethical health care sincerely within our current government structure. These highly refined types of promotional programs target long-term habit patterns, which are stimulated and maintained by comparatively low-cost electronic marketing. Multimedia advertisers abundantly appreciate introducing products to the youngest, most vulnerable persons. It is easier to establish a new habit blueprint than it is to replace one. Youth are the easiest in whom to cultivate repetitive habit pattern consumerism. Toddlers and young children will have more years as active purchasers before they perish resulting in bigger bangs for their advertising bucks. Financial greed wins and your physical and financial health loses.

We need to use our inherent willpower and common sense in choosing the smart path so our physical and financial well being will be the end result. These sensible savings would move us towards solving the healthcare requirements of each individual in this our bountiful nation. However, this individual self-enlightenment would cause a crucial fiscal hardship for those committed, at any cost, to marketing their goods.

At this crossroads the biological language communications of your body is being driven by an artificially motivated electronic stimuli designed to get us to purchase something external to find personal contentment and realization.

If each person led a healthy life style the price tag of health coverage would be exceedingly low, and unable to be exorbitantly driven by commercial profitability.

No one is going to purchase costly advertising space if they cannot pay for it. So it is a worldwide media challenge to present socially healthy stimuli while deriving aggressive profits.

Media and marketing are wed with profits and promoting bigger consumption on a global basis. This is financially to their advantage in the short run but not in actual fact wise, as our earthly material desires continue to breed exponentially.

Loved Ones...We are at present in a dark age. We have a consumer object obsession engrossed around an agenda of self-glorifying holidays. We are in a modern epidemic of greed and one-upmanship. The piling up of material belongings is an almost unstoppable force destroying our physical planet. The truth is acknowledged; there are not enough organic resources, synthetic materials and metals on the exterior of this planet to distribute a middle-class lifestyle to all the people around the world who have now been sold on this style of consumption.
Free enterprise in opposition to eco-consciousness is not a fair game because the current existing power circles have all the wealth, forces of negative reinforcement and propaganda. However as each individual demonstrates unconditional love a true democratic process occurs. A process that concludes with each being deriving complete reward and benefit from their own service to others and themselves.

People living a healthy life style and treating themselves and others without judgment and with unconditional love, result in living the universal golden rule. This can be done with infusion on a spiritual plane and no one can disallow you the right of asking questions and getting guidance from your guardian angel. It is now attainable to get help in personal spiritual evolution.

No government or organization can remove your innate language talent to communicate using your sacred spiritual resources. Assets placed and perfected can provide us with loving assistance while we all each evolve in our own unique way and at our own prescribed rate. This Angelicinfusion method can address the conspicuous needs within the current American health care structure. This support is available to all seekers of truth; knock and the door will be opened.

Civic Volunteerism provides an assortment of economic, social and spiritual benefits within today's exceedingly controlled society. People helping others and themselves through volunteerism within the areas of education and health care can make available educational situations not obtainable at a typical educational site. Do not look forward to a for-profit organization coming to the rescue of Americas aging, injured and uneducated. All Americans are intellectually and spiritually mandated to contribute to maintaining their own health and the health of others.

How do we put into practice civic volunteerism in today's social care delivery structure? Begin with our formative years in educational settings and use computer expertise that now exists in every single classroom and library to match up curriculum with a real human being in need. This demonstrates and trains young Americans to value civic volunteerism first hand in keeping the entire American society strong as a collective responsibility while incorporating enlightened choice using a secure and efficient computer bulletin board framework.

Example: A high school sewing class instructor scans and then selects, a request for assistance on a civic volunteerism Internet bulletin board. This highly detailed request is from a physically disabled non-ambulatory college coed. A 19year old is requesting aid with her special clothing requirements. As a replacement for the instructor having the students make something already prescribed in a book lesson, they could make a huge donation to the welfare of a less fortunate individual.

The mentor teacher has access to any amount of bulletin board requests, which when astutely chosen can keep each student’s concentration at an elevated level if the progressive instructor so chooses. Matching the enormous number of civic volunteerism requests to the extensive variety of students’ interests and educational needs expands the scholarship options while building in genuine life incentive factors. The critical two elements are that the student receives social rewards to facilitate encouragement of those same habits and behaviors later in life and also provides the ever more needed real motivations within the academic setting.

At the same time, still learning the sewing skills outlined in the course description and concurrently reducing the burden placed on health care systems and associated government subsides. We are modeling behaviors that teach our children to care for each other in a loving fashion. This civic volunteerism beneficiary could be someone elected within that immediate school geographic district. This close proximity observably demonstrates directly to the students the responsibility that comes with the great economic freedoms we hold in our affluent nation.

Each school could effortlessly be a considerable resource to the immediate needy desperate for assistance. It is vital that every single individual scholastic situation be specifically chosen by competent classroom instructors to compliment their own educational goals.

America’s teachers are currently the backbone for the enlightened social consciousness of this nations’ youth. The immediate results would be the providing of guidance for Americas constituency and inspiring civic responsibility while serving motivated students to learn by doing in a real setting. While at the same time, establishing norms of civic volunteerism automatically into our continuously renewing youth generation.

Example: Nursing homes are notorious for the lack of outside stimulation. Art and drama programs would be very much appreciated by the facility activity director. Music and variety clubs are straightforwardly shared with those who are institutionalized. Choir and glee clubs are able to provide potent inspiration to those who are required to live in a bed or in a wheel chair. Just bringing your pet can have a marvelous benefit for all involved. Every one of these learning settings is easily scheduled with the activity director and can be done semester after semester educating students to respect others and themselves.

Community volunteerism initiated within a classroom site using a computer bulletin board could incorporate for the benefit of every participant, a scheme designed with universities running the over all management and administration again within the context of the appropriate educational class description. Graduate echelon computer classes could partake in administration and management towards the most desired local civic goals.

Incorporation of the layperson within the volunteer schemes can be self-initiated because of the widespread explosion of computers in our environment. Why not use the resources that already are present in our schools and daily environment. Example: A mature wife who is taking care of her husband at home, who is half paralyzed following a stroke, requests help with some of the numerous essential daily activities and also urgently needs a break once in awhile. This besieged wife is becoming acutely depressed at the formidable challenges facing her and her family. Another woman, a widow, who has experienced almost identical circumstances, now has extra time and energy can and would like to help.

This match could be made using a civic volunteer framework, and monitored by graduate social work, nursing and therapy students and their instructors. This could be very advantageous for all concerned, and a particularly laudable endeavor for man and machine.

Motivated students get first hand practice in real life settings and citizens in need receive assistance to preserve freedom and independence. Civic volunteerism and unconditional love can make our outlook more unwavering and fruitful.

In the past I have been a permanent resident of New Zealand. Working there as a speech and language pathologist provided me with the opportunity to take part directly in many aspects of the Auckland North Shore Hospital, Health Care Volunteer Scheme located in Auckland New Zealand.

This civic volunteer scheme is a hold over from the traditional English nursing heritage. The idea is for concerned citizens to provide needed ethical civic volunteerism to help those in real physical distress. Free direct assistance at a time when the volunteer is seeking friendship and camaraderie allowing both parties to each derive their own cultural and spiritual rewards.

In brief it works like this. The speech pathologist requesting volunteers to partake in a training program produce a TV commercial at the local TV station. The next step is to match someone who has had a stroke and exists at home with an appropriate volunteer.

Then TV and radio stations broadcast this free spot at various times where they need to fill broadcast space. Volunteers call in response to the advertising and enroll in a complete and extensive and thorough training. They are, then matched by the speech and language pathologist out in the field with the patient they have on a waiting list or who; is in the process of being discharged from therapy.

This matching of the volunteer if done appropriately is exceedingly positive for all concerned. Here is the characteristic flow of events.
A husband eventually dies after a stroke and the remaining spouse after struggling for months with his paralysis, communication, and eating problems is alone with feelings of emptiness.

Years after his passing on, his widow is bored and spending a lot of time missing her departed spouse. The house and retirement have provided a lot of free time but she has very little life motivation.

She sees the TV commercial and the telephone number to call. After contemplation she contacts the speech pathologist's secretary who provides a list of upcoming volunteer classes to be taught at the local hospital.

After completing the training curriculum and if the on the spot speech pathologist feels it’s a good match then and only then will the match go forward. The speech and language pathologist must know both people before hand to be able to produce a flourishing and mutually advantageous match.

Matching is a talent in itself and when done well can make spectacular successes come about. Personalities, physical and time constraints, and each person's specific needs all have to be addressed and weighted to have the desired outcome. Scores of civic volunteers once started participate until they cannot continue, and then they enroll in the program. What goes around comes around.

Next we all meet at the patient's home, therapist, volunteer, wife, and the patient. The premise is that when people are allowed to stay in their own home overall benefits and recovery are far greater and much less costly as compared to being institutionalized. In New Zealand for example, the nursing and rehabilitation care completely blend civic volunteerism, whenever possible, into the surrounding village and countryside community.

Rather than beige, square, 99 bed skilled nursing facilities owned by giant conglomerates on every other corner you have a regular neighborhood residential community with a modest percentage with physical plant adaptations, which accommodate a person with special needs.
Remember, any time you are sitting in a car you are a candidate for a traumatic spinal cord injury that in one brief second could alter your whole reality, and no one can return your old body back. You could be sitting listening to talk radio one minute and the next you are at the mercy of America’s for profit health care delivery system.

In New Zealand Health care is a right and automatically covered so there is no reason not to have preventative health care. This saves an incredible volume of money because people get help early on and steer clear of expensive measures.

In the United States, if you have an unanticipated catastrophic injury, you risk losing your home and your lifetime of accumulated assets to a for-profit health care delivery system. Similar to ordering a $5000 product, and the packaging, handling and delivery costs a total of $80,000 who would buy this product in the real world? What is you life worth? All of this at a decisive moment in time when your good health depends on you being in a healthy atmosphere, you need to remain in your home, you need to adapt your residence, and live in it. Being catastrophically injured should not put you in a position to lose your dwelling, go broke, end up in a long-term facility and have a gigantic for profit private organization separate you from your money. Today’s American health care system will consume your savings more speedily than at any other time in your life. You can kiss it all good-bye if your lips still function.

If health care in America were a right, your home would be adapted for this potential eventuality so your property value increases. Instead of a tub shower cubicle, that is as old as the house, now there would be a full size modern bathroom and an attractive shower designed for the specific needs of the homeowner/patient.

The typical costs for the first month in a up to date convalescent home, shortly after the stroke/traumatic injury, would pay for the entire adaptation of your current home and allow doctors and nurses into your own surroundings to educate and assess solutions for maintaining your independence. Within this least restrictive and least expensive environment, you will be a hell of a lot happier too!

I have witnessed numerous situations where the prior homeowners adapted the home, and the current owner is feeling contented having wisely planned ahead. When the realtor showed the potential owners the house the realtor already knew, in the client profile, the prospective buyers desired to be prepared for whatever life brings. The realtor knew their client had decided on a plan to stay at home as long as possible and then when necessary, enter a restrictive setting requiring a higher level of direct medical services. In fact, the end consequence is the dollar value of the home increases after the adaptations, so economically it is to the homeowners' advantage to plan wisely.

Most significantly, the traveling health care providers are well paid (because the great white money sharks are gone leaving health care money for health care) and then healers can enter in and see the patient's current home environment, family and social structures in place, and evaluate pertinent physical limitations. At that time, they are in a much better position to provide those effective solutions the patient requires.
This is a normal environment with structured in context repetitive rein forcers to shape and reward rapid rehabilitation. Many times making small adaptations to furniture and additional kitchen equipment allow independence to be saved. Enhancing the physical home environment can make the difference between months of misery in a long-term care facility and losing the will to live, or comfortable years of living at home and being contented while maintaining many of the prior established routines.

Helping the patient preserve every day situations in the domicile provides a superb environment for rehabilitation healing. Using the historic habits of regular home events the in-context reward structure previously built-in makes rehabilitation flourish…old habit patterns return more easily. Rehabilitation incorporating loved ones who lend a hand is best, providing genuine socialization events the disabled individual wants to truly take part in (no bingo with a banana prize) and food that is home cuisine, which cannot be purchased in any skilled nursing facility anywhere at any cost.

What would you be fond of; a call button, a curtain and a diaper in exchange for personal surroundings and treasured loved ones?

Insert into this home environment a civic volunteering individual with knowledge through prior experience of what the wife of the patient is experiencing. The volunteer sees, from a different perspective, what they themselves were almost certainly feeling as she too went through the various stages: irritation, horror, despair and lonesomeness. This internally motivated volunteer act can be her critical step in finally healing the loss of her dearest loved one who has passed on.

The vast majority of volunteer matches I have made resulted in lifetime friendships and learning experiences that could not have been taught in any learning institution or even purchased if you wanted to. These lessons spotlight the golden rule, a balanced path to existing with one another.

Today the United States has approximately 250 million inhabitants and more than 2 million incarcerated prisoners with a staff ratio of one staff for every two inmates. Why is it our society blows this kind of money without demonstrating any positive results and at the same time is unwilling to address the health needs of you and I?

Didymos Judas Thomas recorded in the gospel of Thomas

Jesus said, "The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Beseech the lord, therefore, to send out laborers to the harvest".
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Rehab is a War Zone
Health care in the USA is a color picture built around a sales campaign. A "feeling of security" concept being stimulated by someone selling you something to protect you from what you now fear. As our american population lives longer the rehab demands made upon our nations limited number of physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and legions of nurses becomes even more unmeetable.

There are many lessons to be learned. Prevention is the key. Start today loved ones and treat yourself in a loving fashion. If you cannot do that at least put down on paper your wishes as to a feeding tube and other types of life sustaining procedures. Today hundreds of thousands of americans are in bed with a call button clipped to the sheet, a TV up on the middle of the wall and that is it. That is the "health care". The diaper, the bed, the call button and the water pitcher....that is the health care.

Loving acts for yourself and others is the path to true health care.
Civic volunteerism specifically targeting prevention is a most spiritual way. Hey give it a try...have a fresh fruit smoothie and bring healing foods to a loved one who is homebound or in a skilled nursing facility.
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