Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of insurance funding for health-promoting treatments, which can lead to more effective healthcare practices.
Andrew Weil advocates for a healthcare model where insurance companies are required to cover health-promoting measures. This shift in funding responsibility would incentivize physicians to genuinely offer such treatments, suggesting that financial support from insurance can lead to better health outcomes for patients by prioritizing preventive care.
In practice
During a health conference discussing preventive care strategies.
There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.
In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.
Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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