Changes in Medical Care

As Medical costs continue to soar, patients are increasingly being denied coverage for crucial services by their insurance companies. Managed care is condemned by the people it covers, the professionals it employs and contracts with and even the lawmakers who make the rules for it. Recently, managed care systems have taken the financial control over their patients to even greater heights by transferring the process of authorization and denial of medical services from treating physicians to administrators. Many doctors now find themselves inadvertently forced by managed care administrators (many of whom have had no medical training) into utilizing their medical knowledge, expertise and experience for the benefit of the plan’s utilization and economic goals-not for what is best for their patients. This obviously, is a very dangerous system of rationing.
So what can we as patients do to avoid all of these problems and receive the best health care possible? The answer is really simple-don’t get sick! We must do everything possible to avoid disease and maintain excellent health. Disease prevention is definitely the key to America’s health care crisis. The question is how does one go about obtaining top quality preventive health care? First, many efforts to screen for silent disease markers and to promote preventive health measures are discouraged by insurance carriers, with the false rationale that they are unnecessary. Second, today’s busy physician devotes little time to the precise details of proper nutrition, age appropriate nutritional supplementation and optimizing hormone levels…..

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