It occurs to me that you can pay for a lot of prophylactic health care for $350/month. You can pay for a weekly massage, or Reiki session, or cranialsacral therapy, or flotation, or whatever makes you feel good.
You can take a raft of supplements daily. I take quite a few. Here is one that is off the beaten path, but which I really like: https://www.amazon.com/Mimis-Miracle-Minerals-Supplement-Supply/
As should not need to be pointed out, but which manifestly DOES need to be pointed out, health INSURANCE and health CARE are two different animals. Totally different.
One is the people who pay your medical bills out of money you have already paid them–in a typical plan–or who if you are unlucky enough to come down with something not normal will pay your high bills, and who operate on an actuarial basis to make money. They gamble a certain percentage of the population with get whatever, and cover that eventuality in their premiums. That is true insurance.
Going to the hospital, or going to the doctor or Nurse Practitioner: that is health care. But what is that? It is checking to make sure things are working, which is useful, and which can be paid out easily on a cash basis even without insurance.
Then it is prescribing medicines, surgeries, and procedures of various sorts to fix things which are already broken in one way or another.
Here is my logic: given that the Democrats and Obama require insurance companies to accept preexisting conditions–or so I understand–I can wait to be “insured” until I have some major illness. I don’t have to pay into the system before then.
And in the meantime, I can spend the money I would have wasted, entirely, since I am healthy, on supplements and preventive care.
I don’t want to get too crazy, so I’m still working out my particular regime, but I really like Tebonin, the gingko supplement, which really does seem to help with my tinnitus. It seems to work even better with Alex Jones Brain Force Plus, I think he calls it. I also like his turmeric supplement. Add to this Mimi’s Minerals, and that’s my first thing in the morning regimen. I take Glucosamine/Chondroitin and a multivitamin with my first meal.
With respect to Glucosamine, most of the studies find it does not reverse existing damage. I haven’t seen any studies looking at if it prevents or reduces the damage in the first place, which seems likely to me. And as far as multivitamins, people who take them fare slightly better over the long term. Not a large effect, but we are talking statistics, and vitamins don’t cost much.
Bedtime I take a mini-aspirin (orange flavored) and usually a ZMA/melatonin.
I also use Essential Oils daily. I have a row of them, numbered 1 to 14. I use them to track the phases of the moon. New Moon I take the first, mix it with some lotion, and rub it on my belly and arms. Etc. There is overlap at both ends, so I recent added two more, for a total of 16.
Again, it should not need to be said, but doctors are not the ones who keep you healthy. They help ameliorate, particularly in this country, all the ways you’ve been fucking up, and know you’ve been fucking up.
Edit: I also take an antihistamine, a generic Zyrtec.
Today: 286, I remembered, and no alcohol.