Saw Michael Moore’s movie, sicko yesterday. Anyone with health insurance should watch this jaw dropping film.
The reason for my post today is simply to express my deep gratitude for I have health insurance.Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have health insurance! I am blessed for this.
As a moral principal, though, I don’t think I should be one of the lucky ones. I don’t think it should be a blessing that I am blessed to have. Why not everyone? Isn’t medical attention for our overall health a basic human right in our modern civilization?
After watching Sicko, I am aware that I am one lucky American to have health insurance. Oh but even though I am lucky enough to have it it does not guarantee that all of my medical conditions, past, present, or future will be covered. I may be denied coverage or attention and end up in the the unlucky boat of folks never having had it. So, I pray that my Lord keep my family and I as healthy as can be. Which brings me to my next point … …
I already have strong feelings of the importance of maintaining health in the body and after watching the film I feel even stronger about it. To have health we need to know what it is; what does it mean to ourselves … before finding out from a Doctor who give us their definition on an unexpected Dr. visit.
What is my health? What does my health mean to me? How can I be healthy? Why is my health important?
In these United States, alternative health practices are crucial for those of us who see that our health care system is lacking. Being a practitioner of alternative health the matter of health is core to me. My well being is my health. I do not see a difference between the two. My feeling good means my health is good. I do not see a difference between these two things. What I provide to people, as an alternative health practitioner, addresses their overall well being so that they can get what they need, so that hopefully they will never have to experience an illness. But also, if they have experienced an illness, my services are there to help the “soldier” return to wholeness … not only in their physical bodies but in their hearts and minds. Our health care system does not address all that. Not yet, at least.
Anyway, I’m sure that I can find more things to go on about, but I’ll spare myself. See the movie yourself and independent of it, think about what health is.
