Define the single most important political issue of the approaching presidential election

Health Care. It still needs work. Obama Care doesn't work for everyone. Why are we paying taxes on Health Care when Health Care is becoming required by the government? Another part of Health Care that doesn't work is that not everyone can take pharmaceutical drugs. I can't for one, so I don't go to a doctor who takes insurance all the time. Instead, I work mostly with a naturopathic doctor and most of my 'medications' are herbal remedies, vitamins and supplements. Now, none of these are covered under Health Care, and yet, Health Care will cover Christian Science treatment - which is quite literally, healing by prayer. Prayer has been around since biblical times. Guess what? So have natural remedies! So why is prayer covered, and not natural medicines? Answer: The all mighty dollar! It’s because the pharmaceutical companies can’t patent the whole plant to make their money that natural remedies aren’t covered. The pharmaceutical companies have the insurance companies in their pockets. What can be done about it? These natural remedies need to be covered.

Also, after an visit to the hospital in 2010 I learned that doctors and nurses with naturopathic training need to be employed at hospitals. I had GBS (Guillain-Barre Syndrome) at age three and I can’t have a flu shot because of something in it that can trigger the GBS again. I told the admitting nurse this and a few minutes later I was asked if I’d had a flu shot and I told him no, and why – again. I also have Fibromyalgia and through the diagnosing process I was on so many meds that my body built tolerance to them so I either have to be on ever increasing doses or I’m always on the drug cocktail. While at the hospital, they had me on pain killers that were one of the highest they had, and they wore off two hours before I was released, so I was in pain for that two hours as well as longer when we got home because it wasn’t time to take more pain killers again. With natural remedies, you don’t have that problem.

The only reason they tell you not to combine natural remedies and your prescription medications is that the pharmaceuticals only use half the plant. Anything that you combine with that uses the whole plant may cause a reaction the part of the plant they didn’t use may counter act. It all comes back to money regardless of how you look at it. Whether or not Health Care completely covers natural remedies under insurance what should happen is they should be covered if you have a doctor’s prescription regardless of what insurance plan and benefits you have. If the government wants to be fair about Health Insurance, the politicians and other government bodies need to be on the same insurance plans as the average blue-collar worker and see how they fair with the Health Care system.

What is the point of all of this? Well, sometime possibly in the very near future we’re going to come to a point where we’re not only going to need the experience of doctors that are trained via pharmaceutical means, but doctors trained in natural medicines as well. I for one believe that time is very near, and so far we’re moving backwards rather than preparing for what maybe to come.