There is much division over the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). Even the Supreme Court was divided 5 to 4 over just the constitutionality of the law. And there is just as much division over whether the law is bad or good. It’s about insurance coverage. It’s about a lot of money. It’s about the cost of health care and who will pay for it.
Here’s an example of how insurance works in our country. A doctor knows that an insurance company reimburses only so much for a test, only the doctor may not know how much that is. To be on the safe side, he charges a lot for the test, let’s say $800. It turns out the insurance company only covers $600. Then the doctor might turn around and tell the patient, “You still owe $200, but I’ll give you $100 discount if you agree to pay the other $100”. The sad thing is that the test might not really cost very much to do, nowadays.
I know someone that bought a working cell phone at the store the other day for $10. Ten dollars! Remember when cell phones were the size of a brick and cost well over $1000? Not anymore, not with today’s technology, manufacturing, and competition. A test that might have cost $800 years ago might actually only cost around $10 now, and plenty of companies might be happy to do them for $80, after all, that’s still an 800% markup!
Our health care system’s “ways of doing things” has been built gradually over time and has been entrenched and reinforced by laws, regulations, companies, policies, and contracts. Unfortunately, these “ways of doing things” have left many of you who are reading this newsletter without your needs being met. In many cases, the insurance companies decide what they will or will not cover and consequently doctors decide what they will and will not do to try to help patients get better. There are certain medical conditions that are not handled very well by our medical system…even when the solutions might be very inexpensive! For example, our system tends not to work very well for chronic illnesses because health care expenses can really add up over long periods of time. One way our system can avoid paying for the treatment of chronic illnesses is to not recognize them.
Consider Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome. I say that 30-40% of the population would benefit from normalizing their low body temperatures with T3 therapy. As you know, people with low body temperature have can have symptoms of fatigue, depression, migraines, panic attacks, trouble with fighting infections, asthma, increased likelihood of cardiovascular disease, blood sugar disorders, insomnia, decreased concentration and memory, and many other problems. Many of these people incur tremendous health care costs especially when they are hospitalized. Imagine if many of these people could begin enjoying good health simply by normalizing their body temperatures? T3 is not very expensive!
If 30-40% of the normal population has low temperatures that would benefit from treatment, what percentage of chronically ill people might have low temperatures? What if they were properly treated and a large percentage of them stopped being ill? You might think that our system would be anxious to embrace such a possibility. Unfortunately, that does not currently fall in their “ways of doing things.” That’s not how they’re currently making their money. I wish it were different.
But it can be different for you. I recommend that you get well and stay well. Please consider getting T3 therapy you might need to normalize your low body temperature and consider taking great herbal supplements to help you support vibrant good health. You’ll likely still need to buy health insurance, but it’s better to pay for health insurance and hopefully not need it than it is to feel terrible and on top of that have to pay for insurance that doesn’t help you get better.
Best regards,
Denis Wilson, MD
P.S.: I would love to hear your take on the Affordable Care Act, especially as it relates to managing your WTS and low body temperature… Share your opinion in the comment field below!
I think that using the term “Obamacare” is derisive and devisive. If you wish to express views on the Affordable Care Act (positive or negative), that is how it should be identified.
Good point. ObamaCare appears to be a term used by people both for (even the Obama Campaign) and against the Affordable Care Act. However, no derision or division was intended.
I agree completely with Dr. Jeff Prickett. Also, the Affordable Care Act.in no way impacts my treatment of WTS, since I’ve already had to go out of network for my care and thus pay out of my own pocket. It does however make it possible for one of my family members with epilepsy to eventually get health care when she needs some day. That said, I am deeply indebted to Dr. Wilson for his pioneering work on this syndrome. I am a new person with the T3 protocol treatment. I really do have a new lease on life. Thanks so much!
Health insurance doesn’t insure your health any more than home insurance protects your home or car insurance protects your car. Insurance protects one’s finances, pure and simple, in the event of a unfortunate event and’or condition. Previous to what you term ObamaCare (and I have no problem with that term, especially since I believe Obama’s name will go down in history as getting CREDIT for this), when the inevitable need for health insurance coverage comes into play in one’s life (as of yet, I don’t believe any of us live forever), it’s covered by all of us one way or another, just not so clearly. With ObamaCare/Afforadalbe Care Act, the playing field is a bit more fair, with all of us either buying our own insurance or paying a tax, excluding those too poor and or too young (children) to do either. No one HAS to buy insurance – that’s been made clear, and I’d like to see people stop making this erroneous claim. It’s a choice, buy health insurance or pay taxes. As Benjamin Franklin so eloquently stated, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
As far as to what insurance will and won’t cover – that’s another topic entirely in terms of alternative healthcare options. It sucks, and will probably continue to suck, but not as badly, especially since so many ways insurance companies get out of covering health care costs are coming to an end, especially considering pre-existing conditions (such as thyroid conditions!) and lifetime limits. Thank goodness! Now, no one needs to be concerned that having a pre-existing condition that can be helped with T3 be a reason for insurance to deny coverage for that T3 therapy.
I’m concerned that Medicare coverage will be less and less available, as so many doctors will not take new Medicare patients already, and it will get worse after Obamacare takes its $500 billion out of Medicare to fund insurance for young people. I will be losing my Medicare Advantage program, which I really like, because it is eliminated under Obamacare.
I have been taking Levothyroxin 50mcg tabs for years because of low thyroid.
This year my medicine cost of this medicine has more than doubled. It is a
generic medicine for an existing medical condition. Is low thyroid not on the
affordable care list as being important?