While many of my friends are celebrating the passage of the “Affordable” Care Act, I am longing for the days of Dr. Quinn.
In those days, people didn’t run to the doctor every time they got a runny nose, which unlike myself – a vaccinated, antibiotic-pumped, junk “food”-fed kid – they probably didn’t get very often.
In those days, people could afford to pay a doctor to make house calls. Instead of insurance, they had something called a savings account (something many of us, including myself, have forgotten the definition of). They drew from this savings account only in times of emergency, which again, I imagine were few and far between, as people ate natural diets back then and weren’t exposed to so much toxic garbage.
In those days, people didn’t expect (or want) the government (other taxpayers) to take care of them (at the point of a gun). Rather, the poor relied upon the voluntary charity of others. Since people didn’t herd like GM-corn-fed cattle at hospitals back then, I’m sure the burden of charity care on society was far lighter than the load imposed on us through taxes today.
Basically what I want is the kind of freedom the Medicine Woman had – the freedom to birth my child at home (or under a tree in Doc Quinn’s case), a much healthier and cheaper way to birth a child; the freedom eat wholesome, nutrient-dense, natural foods; the freedom to use herbal supplements rather than synthetic pharmaceutical drugs; the freedom not to purchase “affordable” “health” care services, and the freedom to risk getting in a fatal car accident (or falling off my horse) without insurance.
I think the term “rugged individualism” – a term that thrilled me to the core when I first heard it in high school – scares most people these days. Obamacare supporters translate it to mean – tough, lonely, cruel, selfish, inhumane, scary. I interpret it to mean – freedom, independence, strength, prosperity, health, and a leg-up from a willing neighbor (not a taxpayer at gunpoint) when I need it.
People say it could never work in today’s society… “our problems are too big, our nation is too unhealthy, healthcare is too expensive, too many people are too poor to pay for it, taxpayers are paying too much for the uninsured who end up in emergency rooms…”
I say, if people would just cut the cord with the government – stop eating the genetically modified garbage government subsidizes for us, stop relying so much on expensive drugs and medical procedures, stop taking government handouts, stop taking tax-subsidized health insurance from your employers, and start eating real food, exercising, resting, spending more time outside, saving money for emergencies (which might require ending the Federal Reserve), donating to charity, and taking responsibility for their own health – it could work.
Life may have been rugged in the Wild West, without Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare, but at least people were free. I realize freedom is scary because it requires taking care of yourself (and those in need), but wouldn’t you rather take care of yourself (and the needy) and be free, than indebted and enslaved to a government that, I assure you, doesn’t care about you (or them) at all?
http://foodriotradio.com/2012/07/obamacare-vs-rugged-individualism/
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