A Letter to President Obama: Thoughts on Health Care

BOOKS & MEDIAWERKS

February 27, 2009

President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, DC

Dear Mr. President,

It is noble of you to want to ensure that adequate health insurance coverage is available to all citizens by proposing a plan that would eventually cover the estimated 48 million Americans who are currently without it. HOWEVER, in choosing this particular strategy, you are overlooking a far greater problem that is currently affecting all Americans — including those that do have health insurance coverage — that is in need of solution.

The health care system itself is dying, full of cancerous ineffectiveness and inefficiencies, and outdated modalities. It should be on life support. In fact, it is being supported by the unquestioned and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.

The health care system is infected with 19th Century treatment modalities that not only ignore, but deny 20^th and 21^st Century discoveries that would easily and economically alleviate many of the costly and deadly ailments that you have expressed a desire to conquer, including cancer.

Adding $634 billion over the next 10 years to cover uninsured Americans would neither promote, nor effectuate, greater health. It would however, further burden an already over-burdened health care system. That $634 billion, which we both know will easily become $1 trillion or more, should it go into effect, would only be a boon to those who now make a living on the status quo. We would simply be giving them a larger plate to feed from.

According to the National Coalition on Health Care, in 2008 alone, total national health care expenditures in the U.S. rose 6.9%, or twice the rate of inflation, to $2.4 trillion. It is expected to reach $4.3 trillion by 2017, at the current levels of enrollment. IF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WAS EFFECTIVE, AS MEASURED BY THE HEALINGS THAT WERE ACHIEVED BY ITS METHODS, THIS WOULD BE GREAT. THE ACTUAL RESULTS SHOW THAT THE OPPOSITE IS HAPPENING.

If there were greater health and healing, the costs of health care would go down. Is it not interesting that no one currently speaking publicly through the mass media on this subject, is discussing how health care costs can go down? Yet, there are many ways that this can happen.

Therefore, the problem is not how many people are enrolled in the health care insurance system. The people who are not enrolled in the health care system are most likely healthier than those who are. You are not doing them, nor the People of the United States of America a service by getting them “in the system,” when the problem is the system itself and how it goes about addressing the health concerns of its patients.

While I could speak much more on this subject, I’ll close here by noting some fundamental assumptions that we make regarding health, healing, and medicine, that have gone unexamined and unquestioned, that have taken us to the present brink of this medical implosion.

• We are vulnerable, unable to “fend for ourselves.” This is a false assumption. The human body comes fully equipped to take care of every physiological and functional situation that crops up during our time on earth. It needs some very basic and fundamental components; adequate oxygen, and water. A healthy body is said to be in balance, or homeostasis. We simply need to be aware enough to give it what it needs. Our gross lack of awareness EVEN AMONG MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, in spite of readily available information, is indicated by our ill health and reluctance to “rock the boat” of current toxicity-based conventions. This assumption leads us to legislate immune system compromising inoculations on young children, and an elderly population that need less, and not more toxicity.
• Only drugs can “cure.” This is a fallacy of the highest order, as it is the human body that heals itself when given what it needs. And no body “needs” synthetic drugs. Yet we have a government agency that has made this great falsehood the cornerstone of its regulative authority. The truth is that no drug can “cure” any ailment. Drugs can alter, suppress, and mask symptomologies. When you watch the barrage of commercials that tout drugs, their truth only relates to the symptoms that they squelch. But they do not bring about a restoration of health. Only Mother Nature can do that, which we, and most traditional medical practitioners have been conditioned to distrust.
• Natural Remedies are Overlooked or Dismissed by Traditional Doctors. The vast majority of tens of millions people who suffer from chronic diseases today, who pay for the myriad tests, and then take the expensive and ineffective drugs that their doctors prescribe — sometimes for years at a time — are simply dehydrated. In other words, their problem would be solved with higher water intake, and a reduction in intake of dehydrating drinks, such as coffee, sodas and “colas,” “energy drinks,” alcohol, and even some bottled water. If this statement is true, and there is much evidence to support it, imagine how many billions of dollars each year that would not need to be spent. More so imagine the health that would not wither away, and hopes that would have a chance to live simply because we were whole again!
• Disease is a battle that must be waged with an invader. Another fallacy. Disease is a state of imbalance that is remedied by restoring said balance. The imbalance can exist on physiological, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Most modern medical practices approach only the physiology, which they try to dominate with drugs, which the toxicity levels in the body, and its state of imbalance. Balance can be restored in many ways, which are often quite inexpensive. Why aren’t doctors telling us this? Why aren’t they demonstrating such understanding themselves?
• Dysfunction and Disease is an Inevitable Result of Aging. This mindset encourages us to accept, if not anticipate the eventual breakdown of our body, when, if given proper nutrition, intelligent removal of toxicity, and adequate water that is naturally structured, we would not only live longer, but we would thrive far longer than we do now.

While issues of population growth, global warming, and the many other factors that occupy the human mind will all need to be addressed in their own time and way, we should not continue operating under false assumptions and unrequitable expectations about human health, or health care, when in fact, the success that our hearts seek, that is, the restoration of health from disease, is possible. However, they are possible when we adopt new methods. The health care system should embrace and encourage said methods, and government agencies should make them, and information about them, readily available, instead of being agents of repression and disinformation.

Your goal should be to have more healthy Americans for half the present day cost of health care. This is possible with a more informed, conscientious, and self-responsible public. Ultimately even with your noble intentions, we are responsible for ourselves.

As such, we must admit to ourselves that, measured by the number of unnecessary medical practice initiated (iatrogenic) deaths alone, which now flirt around 800,000 people and $300 billion annually, it is in the greater public interest to examine and heal the health care system itself, and the bureaucracies that support it, before putting more people at risk. It is also evident that, unless, and until medical practitioners and their profession, because committed to finding the best way to healing, rather than the pharmaceutical way alone, the term “Ask your doctor,” should be met with a very large grain of salt. in actuality, salt is a far better help to healing, than a drug educated doctor.

Respectfully,

Adam Abraham

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