How to Get the Most Cost-Effective Healthcare

With the current crisis in our healthcare system I wanted to share that there are some great ways to get the best most cost-effective healthcare. Some ways you might know while others you might not.

I highly encourage you do forward to anyone you know as there is mass confusion about the topic.

SO WHAT IS THE BEST HEALTHCARE?

While I am grateful for our tools of modern medicine such as surgical advancements, medication (when medically appropriate), there is an entire other side that many people (including friends and family members of my patients) don't understand and think doesn't even work.

In May 2007 in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, there was a study showing the cost effectiveness of natural medicine. The summary is as follows:

Based on 70,274 member-months over a 7 year period demonstrated the following:

60.2% reduction on hospital admissions
59.0% less hospital stays
62.0% less outpatient surgeries and procedures
85.0% LESS PHARMACEUTICAL COSTS

This is compared to the conventional medicine performance for the same health maintenance organization product in the same geography and time frame.

Pretty cool if you ask me...

Of course as in research you always need to do more studies investigation, etc as you will read in any report, but to have someone say natural medicine doesn't work, your are wasting your money, etc simply doesn't know the facts.

How do I find a natural, holistic doctor?

If you are within the tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT) we would love to have you in our office (we do take some insurance. Contact our office for details). We can even do phone consults if you are further away with you faxing your bloodwork and other labwork.

If you need a doctor in person you MUST first understand this:

Medical, Osteopathic and Chiropractic schools all do an incredible job of getting the basics about anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, etc. Some people think chiropractors aren't educated enough. Please look at this link showing the comparision of medical and chiropractic school education.

http://www.proactivesf.com/wp-content/uploads/how-well-educated-is-your-chiropractor.pdf

What matters is finding a doctor who is about getting to the cause of the problem and looking at a holistic, natural way first. Most of this education is currently done in post graduate work. Talk to friends. If they don't know someone, contact our office and we will see if we can find someone close to you.

We look forward to serving you in any way possible. Feel free to contact the office with any questions.