By: Andreas Moritz
Posted: September 10, 2012 — updated 2016
Anyone who has had to go to the hospital recently can attest to the fact that the hospital bills incurred are, in many cases, beyond outrageous. Why is this?
“The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital. These days it seems like almost everyone has an outrageous hospital bill story to share. It is getting to the point where most people are deathly afraid to go to the hospital. All the financial progress that you have made in recent years can literally be wiped out in just a matter of hours. For example, you are about to read about an Arizona woman that was recently charged $83,046 for a 3 hour hospital visit.
How in the world is anyone supposed to pay a bill like that? I have a really hard time understanding why a visit to the doctor should ever be more than a couple hundred bucks or why a hospital stay should ever be more than a couple thousand dollars. Outrageous hospital bills are a real pet peeve of mine and I have not even been to the hospital in ages. What makes all of this even more infuriating is that Medicare, Medicaid and the big insurance companies are often charged less than 10 percent of what the rest of us are billed for the same procedures.
There is a reason why 41 percent of all working-age Americans are struggling with medical debt right now. It is because our health care system has become a giant money-making scam. Millions of desperate Americans go into hospitals each year assuming that they will be treated fairly, but in the end they get stuck with incredibly outrageous bills and in many cases cruel debt collection techniques are employed against them if they don’t pay.
So why do we have to pay so much for medical care?”
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A definite shift is taking place among medical doctors in the United States and other industrialized nations from the specialized areas of practice toward a more holistic approach to health and healing. Many MDs are becoming disillusioned with their limited field of expertise, which mainly consists of conducting blood tests, giving EKGs, using scalpels, or prescribing pills for diagnosed symptoms of illness.
A significant number of U.S. medical schools are now adding courses on holistic and alternative medicine, subjects that were considered taboo in medical circles not long ago. As mentioned before, modern high-tech medicine cannot be applied to chronic diseases. Medical attention is indispensable during situations of crisis when organs have failed, when injuries caused by accidents require surgery, or when someone is fighting a life-threatening infection. The vast majority of illnesses, however, are chronic in nature. They include high blood pressure, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, depression, and other acute disorders that become chronic, including cancer and AIDS.
Patients are becoming increasingly disenchanted with the endless high-tech scans and tests provided by modern medicine. They offer none of the personal care and encouragement which an ill person, in need of a positive placebo effect, so badly needs. This feeling of alienation and helplessness drives many into the hands of alternative practitioners who spend more time with their patients and offer them approaches that include self-help programs like meditation, yoga, dietary advice, and natural remedies.
The most profound and continuous guarantee of good health is taking of responsibility for your own health and life. This includes the search for and application of natural ways to improve the body, as much as avoiding those factors and influences that cause it harm. Once you know what causes disease, you will be able to rebalance the situation and lay the foundation for optimal health.