http://cwis.org/FWE/2010/07/11/global-health-promotion/ An Online Daily Journal of the Center for World Indigenous Studies Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cwis.org/FWE/2010/07/11/global-health-promotion/#comment-96 Jay Taber Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:05:28 +0000 http://cwis.org/FWE/2010/07/11/global-health-promotion/#comment-96 Traditional medicine of indigenous peoples faces some of the same obstacles as what is sometimes described as alternative healing or holistic treatments. Here in the United States, people on public health insurance plans can access emergency surgeries costing tens of thousands of dollars, yet are denied access to preventive medicine costing mere hundreds. Even when advanced physicians open to these methods of maintaining health prescribe these treatments, patients are left to their own devices to pay for them. As you say, something is clearly wrong. Traditional medicine of indigenous peoples faces some of the same obstacles as what is sometimes described as alternative healing or holistic treatments. Here in the United States, people on public health insurance plans can access emergency surgeries costing tens of thousands of dollars, yet are denied access to preventive medicine costing mere hundreds. Even when advanced physicians open to these methods of maintaining health prescribe these treatments, patients are left to their own devices to pay for them. As you say, something is clearly wrong.

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