Under our present system, a man or woman with a life threatening medical problem can get medical care at almost any hospital whether or not that individual has the means to pay for the treatment.

The medical care isn’t necessarily free.  The patient will be billed for the medical intervention.  However If the patient does not pay for the treatment, the paying customers bills have to be (and are) increased to make up the difference.

Those of us who have health care insurance are paying for the uninsured already.  Hospitals aren’t mandated to give uninsured patients preventative care.  They are mandated to give expensive life-saving treatments (in many instances).  This means that we may be paying a lot more than we should.  

If we all had health insurance, inexpensive preventative care treatments would be more commonplace and expensive life-saving treatments  might be less so.  

Also, a healthier population is a more productive population.  A populace that benefits from more preventative care procedures  misses fewer days of work each year.  Healthier people take fewer sick days. They are less likely to become disabled.  They earn more.  They pay more in  taxes.

If we allow our healthy twenty year olds to opt out of the medical-care insurance system, many of them will become fifty-year old heart patients who will get treatment from our system but who have never paid into it.  Unless we are going to deny them treatment when they desperately need it, we should get them to pay their fair share.

Few of us want to live in a society where desperately ill people who are without insurance get forcibly removed from our hospitals and left in the streets to die.  Can you imagine the images on the nightly news if that were allowed to happen?  Can you imagine walking through these poor people on your way to get to your doctor?

Whether it is right or wrong, we are required to pay for many things that we as individuals, don’t need.  Even though you may not drive, part of your taxes pays for roads and bridges.  Part of your childless neighbors taxes pay for schools.  

If you choose not to pay the part of your taxes that goes toward your local police force, would they be allowed not to investigate your murder or help you if you were being robbed?  If you never got robbed or murdered should you get a rebate on your taxes?  Of course not.

Using the same logic, a person who might have a heart attack or a major bike accident lawyer should pay an equitable piece of the cost whether or not he or she ever needs significant treatment.

If we are not going to employ armed guards in our hospital emergency rooms to remove the bleeding would be patients who haven’t paid into our system, we need to get every citizen to pay into the system.  Obligatory medical insurance or tax funded universal health care insurance is the only fair way.

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Orthomolecular nutrition analyzes cell behavior, the manner in which the cell absorbs nutrients and uses this information to determine what the best diet for health and physical maintenance is. In general, when we talk about nutrition whenever we think about what we really like to taste and eat. However, an increasing percentage of the population believes that nutrition entails providing the body the necessary nutrients to stay healthy.

We tend not to worry about too much fat in order to care for the heart and arteries, a little sugar for fear of tooth decay and obesity, not having too much salt for fear of high blood pressure and can even opt for foods that contain the fiber we always welcome in out diets. Nutrition tends to relate more with the physical health of our organs and tissues. The new concept of cellular nutrition will help us understand how our health can improve from an orthomolecular level. Ultimately, the health of our cells depends largely on what we eat through diet and supplementation. For many years, principally in England, Germany and the United States, orthomolecular nutrition has emerged as a new concept in nutrition that encompasses not only diet, but also nutritional supplements, which are considered necessary for a high percentage of the population.

This new concept of nutrition is called orthomolecular nutrition. Orthomolecular nutrition relies on the fact that all tissues have a structure that depends on cooperation between different cell types, and therefore it is essential to the health of tissues and organs that the cells are equally as healthy. After ingestion of food takes place, some metabolic processes of digestion, absorption and assimilation, end with the utilization of a wide range of nutrients through the cell wall to be used by the cell. Orthomolecular nutrition analyzes cell behavior, the manner in which the cell absorbs nutrients and uses them to determine what diet is best for the maintenance of cellular health and disease prevention. Cellular nutrition is then defined as the supply of nutrients to the body cells and the need for energy and maintenance of their structure and functions. Of course, the body’s cells need the same nutrients that have been regarded as essential, so what distinguishes orthomolecular nutrition from other forms of nutrition is the providing for the proper functioning of cells.

That is, not only is it necessary that the diet isn?t deficient in any nutrient, but also, that it does not contain substances that can unbalance our cell behavior, damaging the ability to absorb and utilize essential nutrients. The cell is wrapped in a thin membrane composed mainly of fat, and within it are protein molecules that perform specialized functions. The cell membrane has a vital role because it controls what can or can not pass into cells.

The interior is divided into cellular compartments, including the nucleus; inside the nucleus is the genetic material that carries all the information necessary for the structure and functioning of the cell. Under powerful microscopy, one can see the cell structure and its operation affected by a deficiency of minerals and vitamins as well as an excess of chemicals like toxins, sodium, calcium and sugar. Nutrient deficiency slows cell functions and subtracts energy from the cell. Excess toxins inhibit and destroy enzymes, impair cellular energy production and the cell unable to synthesize proteins. Some toxins affect genetic material and can damage the cell wall. The sodium and sugar in excess is also toxic in nature and affect the cell in the same way as do the toxins. Note to Readers and Article Distributors:Everyone is permitted to reprint, publish, post, and distribute this particular article on the web provided the author’s bio and the hyperlinks contained therein are included.

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