Health care choices

One of the ben­e­fits of the decline in health insur­ance ben­e­fits that I and many Amer­i­cans are expe­ri­enc­ing is that today I vis­ited Jock, a prac­ti­tioner of Ori­en­tal Assess­ment and Herbal Coun­sel­ing. You see, last week, my wife whose health insur­ance I am under told me that because the deductibles are now so high on the pol­icy she might as well go see Jock because even if she goes to a net­work provider the insur­ance will prob­a­bly never kick in. She went to see Jock and after ques­tion­ing her about his tech­niques I was impressed. I have no faith in tra­di­tional West­ern med­ical prac­ti­tion­ers anyhow.

So, today I also saw Jock since I have some diges­tive prob­lems that have been keep­ing my life from being as per­fect as I would like. I spent about two and a half hours with him, got a good overview of how the body works, received a pain­less and non-intrusive diag­no­sis and a list of herbs for me to take. I have con­fi­dence in him. Our friends who have been see­ing him for years gave him the high­est recommendation.

Jock said that other clients said the same thing about their insur­ance cov­er­age and why they were com­ing to him. If you have to pay for your med­ical expenses out of your own pocket, you might as well get the best avail­able ser­vice. As for me, I’d rather deal with a holis­tic prac­ti­tioner than a typ­i­cal doc­tor who usu­ally just treats symp­toms rather than get­ting to the under­ly­ing causes of the symp­toms. Two and a half hours with Jock cost me $90 and the herbs may cost a hun­dred dol­lars or so. Then I expect to be healthy. This makes sense to me. How about you?

Peace,

Steve

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