Yes indeed, it is a sad state that we have gotten ourselves into. About 75 million people with no health insurance is a major challenge that affects each and every one of us in some way.

My concern is that some well intentioned individuals, groups, foundations and organizations will be directing their efforts to help these uninsured through the traditional medical paradigm.

This will only make things worse.

If they continue on that path, somewhere down the road there will be even more people who can’t afford health care, because it has gotten even more expensive.

What these well-intentioned groups fail to appreciate is how we got to be in this situation in the first place. We currently spend about $1.5 trillion on health care in the United States each year, and that is expected to double to over $3 trillion in less than 10 years. Worldwide, we spent nearly a half trillion dollars on drugs alone to treat disease.

This spending is absolutely inevitable when you focus on treating symptoms with expensive drug and surgical solutions.

The solution will clearly be to embrace natural approaches that activate the body’s God-given healing systems. People will need to take responsibility for their health and:

• Radically cut back on the nearly 200 pounds of sugar they eat each year
• Stop spending 90 percent of their food money on processed foods
• Exercise four to five times a week
• Stop relying on drugs as symptomatic Band-Aids and demand solutions instead

Please don’t misunderstand me. There is not a war between traditional and natural medicine. That will never work. What we need is a cooperative merger that can take the best of both worlds.

We will need surgery to repair the traumas we inevitably encounter from living in the modern age, and drugs will likely always be needed to some degree, though it is more than possible to reduce their use by 90 percent to 95 percent.

Ultimately, I suspect the number of uninsured, along with other health issues that are complications from over-reliance on the drug/surgical model, will only worsen. This is bound to happen before the pain becomes severe enough to force those in authority to recognize that the entire system is in desperate need of a radical overhaul.

In some ways this is similar to what occurred in the 9/11 tragedy. It took the loss of thousands of lives to improve our airport security. The improvements were needed all along, but there wasn’t yet enough pain to make the necessary changes take place.

A similar analogy could also be made with alcoholism. Many alcoholics are not motivated to seek help until they are literally in the gutter. For some, even at that point they refuse to change.

Let’s just hope and pray that those who are in responsible positions to facilitate these changes aren’t like the hopeless alcoholic.

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