I am sure by this time everyone has hear of the thirteen year old boy here in Minnesota that is forced to take chemotherapy. The key word here is forced. Now I understand that the boy is in the custody of his parents who are suppose to make the right decision for their child and yes everyone wants the best for the child. The question is what is really the best thing for him? Since we have a monotheistic medical industry and I emphasis the word industry here since it is and is designed as a for profit business. By monotheistic, I mean we really, according to law, only have one choice and if you decide that you would like a different choice you are subject to legal prosecution. In the "Land of The Free" where have all our freedoms gone.
People often complain about the cost of health care, but no one really wants to discuss the real issue and that is that there is no competition to lower your costs. When you have an industry protected by law to be the one and only choice for your health care you can imagine what you will be charged.
With the cost aside for a moment, I know through personal experience that there are many options for your health care that can be just as effective as the protected industry, but we cannot legally say what they are without fear of legal prosecution. Nor, as we find out from recent news articles that we can refuse it. When did we give up our rights. There is a reason that you are admitted to the hospital. Admission is a voluntary condition, once you are admitted to the hospital, you have just given up your rights to allow the medical staff to make the best choices for you that they feel necessary based on their knowledge and information. We assume that they know better than we do and in many cases this is true, but not all. I have found that most medical professionals have a very poor understanding of nutrien and dietary health.
What do you think? Are you willing to give up your rights to have the freedom to make your own choices? Let me know.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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I agree with you for the most part on the monotheistic nature of the health care industry in our country. I also think that there has been a big change in the last 5-10 years in recognizing alternative treatments and their efficacy in treating certain conditions. Even the docotor commenting on the story last night said that there was no reason that prayer couldn't be combined with the chemo to treat Daniel's cancer. But in this case, chemo was basically his only chance at survival. It's hard to argue with a 95% cure rate with / less than 5% cure rate without. As a parent really, no matter my beliefs, that's a no-brainer. And I feel that's what these parents had, no brains. Do I agree with the courts to force Daniel to take chemo? Well, yes, I guess so, he's 13, he doesn't understand the consequences. His parents do, or should have, and pretty much were sentencing him to death without intervention. I'm not a fan of the state telling us how to live our lives, but they do it every day anyway; stop at red lights, pay your taxes, don't kill. That's the price of living in a society and avoiding anarchy.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I'm a big fan of looking at all alternatives; medical, chiropractic, spiritual, whatever it takes. A person is a fool not to try everything. But to completely close the door on one alternative, just because, is foolish and dangerous. Yeah, it's a broken system; I'll be paying for the birth of my second son until he's 5 or 6 years old. I'm not happy about it, and I had choices, and I chose to go to the hospital to have him (well, c-section was the only choice so really there was no choice). Let's just hope the ultra-left wing socialist liberals in office now can do something about it (just a little dig at the conservatives there, I'm all for the current administration!). Although I'm not holding my breath.