A Good Look at Health Care Delivery

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thanks Twyla for the link. good find. what's more interesting to me

about this article than underscoring the need for more CAM to reduce

costs is how can we use BJ's methods to better apply measurable

outcomes for AOM treatments to increase the effectiveness of the care we

provide in the AOM setting. There are also other models of health care

(PCP in this case below) that are more viable than our current insurance

based system.

 

Michael Fine's book, the Nature of health: How America Lost and Can

Regain a Basic Human Value is an excellent read. Check out

<http://books.google.com/books?id=VNubqA0HGj4C & pg=PA145 & lpg=PA145 & dq=mic\

hael+fine%2Bthe+nature+of+health & source=bl & ots=ehBXyrDTG0 & sig=w3Jv5h7rtT\

eMa3hHf9A1dYZ7UJw & hl=en & ei=jtfySrHVBtTTlAeLo_m1Aw & sa=X & oi=book_result & ct\

=result & resnum=1 & ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage & q= & f=false> chapter

15--toward a social definition of health on page 145.

 

 

 

Besides writing good books, Dr. Fine has developed a model for

delivering care in Rhode Island that addresses the needs of people

without health insurance. The practice he started, Hillside Family

Medicine <http://www.hillsidefamily.com> has figured out a way to

provide care to people without insurance, at a fraction of the cost,

while still remaining a viable practice.

 

Right now in the midst of all of the discussion about health care in

America, Dr. Fine is working to pass legislation in RI that would

provide primary care for all.

 

Here is a link

<http://fmec.net/pdfs/delivery_system_revised%20final_draft%2008%2018%20\

09.pdf> to the white paper document on this effort. There is also a

petition to sign via Michael's website

<http://www.michaelfinemd.com/9.html> .

 

 

 

 

cheers,

 

 

 

 

Keith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keith Zabik

 

www.tucsoncommunityacupuncture.org

 

 

 

 

Chinese Traditional Medicine , Twyla <twylahoodah wrote:

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> A very detailed, telling and provoking story about how allopathic

health care delivery is determined in the US. Underscores the need for

and importance of complimentary/alternative, wholistic health care.

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> Public information must be more aggressively channeled to the consumer

regarding the cost and life saving efficacy of wholistic and

complimentary/alternative/preventive health care.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Healthcare-t.html?th & emc=th

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> " Dismantle your perceptions. Lose your mind. Abandon your ego. Come to

your senses.You cannot do all the good the world needs,thus the world

needs all the good you can do. " Dr.Twyla Hoodah, D.O.M., A.P.

SpiritcareAcupuncture.org

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A Good Look at Health Care Delivery

Posted by: " Twyla " twylahoodah   twylahoodah Mon

Nov 9, 2009 10:05 am (PST)

 

A very detailed, telling and provoking story about how allopathic health

care delivery is determined in the US. Underscores the need for and

importance of complimentary/alternative, wholistic health care.

 

Public information must be more aggressively channeled to the consumer

regarding the cost and life saving efficacy of wholistic and

complimentary/alternative/preventive health care.

 

If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change

It - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Healthcare-t.html?th & emc=th

 

" Dismantle your perceptions. Lose your mind. Abandon your ego. Come to

your senses.You cannot do all the good the world needs,thus the world

needs all the good you can do. " Dr.Twyla Hoodah, D.O.M.,

A.P. SpiritcareAcupuncture.org