Without getting into the politics of control, lets look at the real issue. Are we really talking about health care? Can you legislate health care? Whose responsibility is it for health? Who is responsible when we reap natural consequences of violating natural laws?
From my point of view as a practicing physician for over 25 years, with tens of thousands of clients, the answer is YOU as a consumer are responsible for your health, your choices and your consequences. The real issue being debated is should you and I pay for other peoples choices and consequences? Especially when those consequences are meant to be uncomfortable to help us make better choices next time.
The systems of the human body are intelligently designed. Part of that design is negative feedback to choices and habits that are not healthy. What I’m saying; we’re debating and legislating control.
Allopathic care (medicine and any therapies that seeks to regulate, change, control, manipulate body physiology – symptoms) is emergency and disease control. A fantastic tool to save a life, yet fails when it comes to the majority of true health issues – in that for a person to heal they must address the cause of their symptoms, which is never an external agent; it is their habits that affect their physiology, immunity, and regulatory systems. So allopathic care is about controlling people who on their own have poor self control in some area of their life.
As a health care provider I coach, demonstrate, empower and hold accountable my clients and their choices. As their habits improve so does their health – making emergency care, hospital stay and drug dependency drastically reduced. Current scientific literature, Hippocrates (remember Hippocratic Oath?) and philosophic beliefs for millennia support whole health as a viable option to allopathic-emergency care.
Self control and virtue are healing, whereas vice tends to be temporarily gratifying yet in the end self-destructive for an individual, and yes, for a nation.
In Health & Service,
Dr. Roland Phillips