One of the biggest problems facing America today is the health care crisis, meaning the high cost of healthcare, insurance, and the universal need for insurance. I have seen lots of "debates" about cause, needs, fixes, etc.... But all are missing the most important and most fundamental point. It's really very simple, but people just don't think today!
Why is there a healthcare crisis? One simple answer, there is a steeply rising need for healthcare, because America is sick and getting sicker. Think about this... If people didn't need healthcare, there would not be a crisis! If people were healthy, they would not need healthcare!
But you answer "wait, everyone needs healthcare" and I say "exactly my point". There is an assumption that people are supposed to be, or normally, in need of healthcare because sick is normal! Hogwash. If that was true humans would have never made it for thousands of years with virtually no healthcare (by today's standards).
There are two disturbing trends not being talked about...
1) the falling average age that particular ailments affect people compared to decades ago
2) the rising rate of certain ailments affecting only the young
During my own lifetime I have seen both of these astronomically increase. Diseases that in my childhood were "old person diseases" are now rampant among the young, the age of diagnosis falling every decade. Diabetes and cancer are examples of this. They used to almost never affect people under 50. 20 years ago it was noticed among my peers, today it's childhood onset. The age of diagnosis could easily be charted against time to see this trend.
Likewise with childhood only disease. Things like autism rising a thousand times within my own lifetime. Diseases that represent severe development challenges, now rampant at varying degrees in virtually all children. This wasn't so in my childhood! These things were rare.
Put these two trends together and you get a health crisis, which leads soon to a health care crisis. America is dying, and it is the children paying the highest price. To stop and reverse this trend does not take treatments. That's just silliness. You don't watch a noncuminicable disease spread like wildfire and try to stop it by treating the sick. No, we have to look for why these things are spreading, what is the root cause. Reverse the root cause and the trend reverses.
So what is root cause? I have a suggestion... Instead of carefully looking for the one thing that might be responsible, let's take a new approach. Lets reverse everything that "might! Be a cause, immediately, and then search for the one truly responsible! Doing this stops the damage first, learn second. Put children over science. Why would we not?
So many say" no, can't be that, there is no proof. I won't change until you prove it". What they are really saying is "I value this thing more than my child or my health, so I won't change until you prove I have to". Selfish, childish, immature behavior. How does that person then go to God and say "heal me of this thing, I refuse to change my own life... Either you heal me or I will wait for the magic pill". Ridiculous.
So, here's my advice. Change everything that might possibly be cause for failing health and don't restart unless absolute proof is given that there is no harm. Therein is wisdom, and it works.
What causes autism? Poor health... A combination of toxins, lack of nutrition, genetic weaknesses, etc. They will never find one thing responsible because it is not caused by one thing, but rather a state of being. Same with diabetes, cancer, alheizemers, etc. For any particular individual you can point to one thing that "put them over the edge" and caused the visible start of these diseases. But even then it isn't one thing responsible. Many things led them to the brink, any one of many could have pushed them over.
So please... Do everything possible to protect health. Be willing to "sacrifice" a little pleasure, inconvenience, to achieve health. Then rely on God for the rest. He will honor that type of dedication and sacrifice. Do all that we can and he will complete the rest.
Health is not in a pill, health is in a lifestyle.