Resilience Tips: How to Create Your Own Free "Health Care System"
By Sandy Davis, a.k.a. "The Resilience Guy"
Beware Our Failing “National Health Care System”
Our so-called “national health care system” is a big mess. It’s dreadfully broken, and Congress has yet to prove that it has the will to fix it. In the meantime, the costs of health care, prescription drugs, and health insurance are all skyrocketing—to outrageous levels that most of us can “ill-afford” to pay.
Here’s the really scary part: In spite of the exorbitant cost of medical care in this country, the effectiveness of whatever care you receive it is not measured, and no one is accountable for the results you get—or that you don’t get.
I can tell you from (literally) painful personal experience that being a patient under the care of our convoluted health care system is risky, expensive, and often life-threatening.
In other words, you can’t rely on the health care system that we currently have in place to take good care of you. It has lost its way and is in too much disrepair.
Our Current System Focuses on Sickness, Not on Health
The most obvious problem we face is that our “health” care system is not focused on health. Instead, it is primarily focused on sickness and disease.
All marketing hype aside, our current for-profit “health care system” is designed to ignore you until you become sick. Only then, does it kick in, and then it customarily focuses just on treating your illness as quickly as possible, with as little risk of malpractice lawsuits as possible, and with as much profit as possible.
Because our current system lacks a strong, lifelong focus on wellness and disease prevention, it fails miserably at generating and sustaining wellness. And, for goodness sake, that’s a major reason why the system is failing so miserably.
By treating us as patients (which is often code for victims), the system manages to disenfranchise most of us right from the start. Moreover, as we seek care within the system, many of us end up becoming actual victims of misdiagnoses, unnecessary tests and procedures, medical oversights, tragic miscommunications, etc.
An Accessible Free Alternative to Our National Health Care System
Instead of your relying heavily on our so-called national health care system to help you stay well, I would like to offer you an alternative approach to sustaining your health and vitality. It is immediately accessible, will cost you next to nothing, and can afford you a protective degree of independence from our convoluted external system over which you have virtually no control.
Create Your Own Internal “Health Care System”
I want you to become fully invested in your own internal “health care system.” I want you to invest a small amount of time and energy in enhancing your own personal wellness, and to do so in a proactive and ongoing manner. I also want to emphasize that doing this will cost you next to nothing in dollars.
I want you to lean how to take such great care of yourself that (1) your immune system will become much stronger; (2) you will gain a significant amount of protection from all sorts of medical problems and diseases; (3) you will enjoy having almost boundless vitality; and (4) you will consequently live a much longer life in much greater health.
In other words, I want to help you take full control of your own well-being and thereby minimize your dependence on our dysfunctional health care system.
Regardless of whether substantive health care reform is eventually passed by Congress, this alternative approach to your own personal wellness is the simplest, most affordable, and most assured way to take full control of your own well-being.
It’s the best way to insure that you will be able to look forward to a long, healthy, and productive life.
All You Have to Do Is…
Start today!
As you take control of your own well-being, you can greatly increase the likelihood that you will stay healthy. At the same time, you can decrease the likelihood that you will end up having to spend your hard-earned dollars on expensive and potentially life-threatening medical treatments.
Fortunately, each of us has the right and the power to take great care of ourselves, regardless of how messed up our national health care delivery system is now, and regardless of how messed up it is likely to remain for a long time to come.
Call to Action
If you want to invest systematically in your own well-being, pick one simple “self-care structure” that would make a big difference for you, and set aside a small mount of time today to do whatever that structure invites you to do. Because evidence of your own success is so compelling, you can also benefit from taking a moment to write down what self-care activity you actually did, and how long you did it.
Those are the first steps towards creating your own internal health care system.
As you become highly accountable to yourself for sustaining a steadfast focus on your own well-being every single day, your vitality will soar, and your dependence on our shaky national health care system will shrink commensurately.
Relevant Resource
For more about how to take on and then adhere to some proven daily self-care structures, I encourage you to read my newest instructional guide: The Resilience Manual: How to Thrive in Stressful Times – Seven Simple Self-Care Structures that Increase Your Ability to Prosper Come What May.
Relevant Quotations
“Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
“Every journey begins with a first step.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” – John Burroughs
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Copyright © 2010 Alexander M. (Sandy) Davis. To find out more about Sandy Davis and the resilience-related manuals and services he offers, visit www.ResilienceWorks.com. To subscribe to his free monthly e-newsletter, send an e-mail to Subscribe@ResilienceWorks.com. FYI, he’s “The Resilience Guy.”