Pham Dinh Vien

Many people are pretty polarized on the alternative health care debate. They are either completely for or completely against it. On the one hand, there are people who stand with tradition entirely and are unwilling to compromise. They believe that normal medical health is the highest level that the treatment of diseases has ever reached. They don’t believe in any alternative health treatment at all, viewing it as unscientific and probably unhelpful as well.

On the other hand, there are alternative health fanatics. I know some people who will only use holistic health services and nothing else. They won’t even take prescription drugs if they believe they can get better with herbs. They believe that science is overrated and that some things can’t be measured in numbers.

I always try to avoid either extreme in my own practices. I have had some great success with alternative health, and definitely wouldn’t give it up. On the other hand, I think that science is very valuable. Traditional Western medicine has done a lot of great things for us. It has brought us a new understanding of the physical body, excellent drugs and treatment options, incredible scans which allow us to see inside the body, and many other helpful technologies. To throw it all away based on a vague belief in the power of herbs is foolish.

That is why I use both alternative healing and traditional medicine. I think that improving your diet and taking health supplements can do great things for you, and is often a better solution than costly medications with side effects. When you are not treating something severe and acute, you shouldn’t put a lot of stress on your body during the treatment. Otherwise the cure can be worse than the illness. Using herbal treatments can remove the need to strain your body by introducing antibiotics and things like that into it.

On the other hand, I like to keep traditional medicine as an option. Sometimes, things get really bad and you just need a pretty strong treatment. You might not want to start with an operation or even prescription medication, but it might come to that in the end. This is why I have always viewed complimentary medicine as the best approach. It allows you to use both Western and Eastern medicine, combining the best of both worlds. After all, the more tools you have, the more options you have for treatment.

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I know what you are going to say after reading the title of this article. You may think there is no such thing as affordable health insurance, and there may be some truth to that. However, you probably need it, and that means you have to find the best deal that you can get. What you can get through work, and how much money you make, often are huge factors in when and how you can get your insurance. If you are on your own when searching, you may find that there is no such thing as affordable, but some policies are less than others.

If you have healthcare through your job, you may have the only type of affordable health insurance that is out there. Some have theirs paid for through their company completely, and if you have that, you are one of the luck ones. Others, like my husband, have to pay a bit of their insurance out of their check, but this may not be a lot. In some cases, affordable health insurance means paying a larger amount out of each check, but it is still cheaper than if you were to go out and buy a policy on your own with the benefit of being in a group plan through your employer.

There are some ways you can get affordable health insurance when you can not get it through work. One way would be to join your local chamber of commerce if you have a home based business or if you are selling a service through self employment. Though not all of them have health insurance that you can buy into, some do. You can also see if you can join a union that would accept you, and then see if they have any type of affordable health insurance that you get as part of being in the union and paying your dues.

There are going to be other times when you are on your own when looking for affordable health insurance. You are just going to have to take some time and search. You may find some deals online, but you do have to do your research. If a policy seems too good to be true, it probably is. That does not mean that there are not some good ones out there, so don’t give up until you find one that can give you some affordable health insurance, even if you have a high deductible. Don’t forget about state funded insurance for you if you are pregnant, or for your children if you have no other way to cover them.

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