veryone knows that healthcare in America should change, so why does it not change? What or who will be the spark that ignites the next step in the Health Revolution? How long will it real- istically take for healthcare to become what it needs to be? These are just a few of the questions to be ad- dressed in the struggle for change, exemplified well by the divided reaction to the COVID-19 public dis- ease control efforts. It is time, for as many authorities as are willing, to openly ex- plore with the people their answers to those and other fundamental questions, including the one to be explored here today: is healthcare a right or a responsibil- ity?
E Right or a Responsibility?
legitimately find stability. The right or responsibility question is
Setting the tone for this discussion, it is both. Let us get real for a moment. Health is a personal responsibility. Every body is different. Each has its own unique game of chess going on between the vari- ous factors that keep someone optimized rather than marginalized, thriving instead of surviving. Keeping your internal com- munication network free of interference (see Chiropractic, Upper Cervical), com- mitment to sleep hours and proper posture, nutritional choices (it is okay to ask for help), emotional and stress management guidance (it is also okay to ask for help), and the like. That is health, and each per- son must take ownership and play their part. Health care is a right. Be very thank- ful if you are among the fortunate, and give back to the community so that the less fortunate have a health anchor, if you will, keeping them engaged in the effort to cre- ate greater stability in their lives by trying to reduce the chance that their health will not allow them to. It would make America greater in many ways if more people could
among the most important topics at the forefront of the dividing line separating the United States from embracing at least the possibility of universal coverage for the entire population. Opponents of universal healthcare are plentiful in America, many even outright dismissive of it. This article will not attempt to stake a claim either way on the subject, but statistically the over- whelming majority of the best healthcare systems in the world do have a form of universal coverage. In one publication, all but two of the twenty-nine countries ahead of the United States, including each of the top nineteen ranked in overall healthcare, have universal systems. So, regardless of one’s opinion on right or responsibility, the statistics warrant strong consideration of a systemic shift. If America goes down that
road,
though, committing to taking a step back, compromising on some things, but not all things, studying how its peers in the world have been much better than it, and genu- inely changing something that has long since needed an overhaul, then it will have achieved a momentous step forward in the evolution of health care. It is extraordi- narily important to remember, though, that how America views health itself is in just as dire a need of a seismic transformation.
Healthcare: Is It a
Where talking about this topic often gets mixed up is when health and healthcare are assumed to be about the same thing. Healthcare is built around maintaining an adequate level of well-being, necessary to be a functional member of society. Yet again, survive is not thrive. Health is be- ing the best version of yourself in all phases of life, as best you can. The personification of health does not understand the
modest goals of the personification of health care. They are coffee and tea, and perhaps it is time to be bold and dump the current ways of thinking about health and healthcare into the harbor. Obviously, there is so much more to this big picture conversation. Making the distinction between health and healthcare is just the first step; these distinctions are going to lay the foundation for America’s future. Health is more important than anything. Healthcare is important too. Leaders need to be clearer on these distinc- tions so that the people at large are clearer on them too. Collectively getting on the same page is the short-term goal. There is a lot of work to be done, so a general synergy among the people is nec- essary to push us confidently in the right direction of change. For those who miss the movie theater, it would be a shame if the aliens landed, Sky Net took over the world with its A.I., or an asteroid made humans like the dinosaurs to a far off gen- eration of earthlings before Americans figured out health and healthcare.
Written by Chad McIntyre, DC, Triad Up- per Cervical Clinic, 432A W. Mountain St., Kernersville. Visit www. TriadUpperCervi-
cal.com for more info or call 336-992- 2536 for an appointment. See ad on page 22.
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