Alternatives

Various folks have suggested alternative health care methods for my health care crisis.
I appreciate their concern and I have explored alternative therapies/remedies such as vitamins, herbs, prayer and other alternative methods of health care.
Don't misunderstand me; I think most alternative care is great, can be cutting edge and preventive medicine is the best course of therapy.
I don't worship doctors nor do I think allopathic (conventional) medicine is a cure-all.
I think allopathic physicians should incorporate alternative medical ideas in their practices.
However, uninsured is still uninsured for both alternative and conventional health cares.
Many alternative health practitioners are as expensive as conventional practitioners.
My question is this:
What if we, as a society, considered equal and affordable access to medical care as important other public services (paid for through our taxes)such as primary and secondary education, police, fire and other such essential services.
We pay for roads with our taxes, why not health care?
What if employers considered employees health care a priority?
Unhealthy employees who worry about health care access and costs are not happy employees and they are less productive than their healthier counterparts.
I have missed many days of work because of high blood pressure-related problems.
I had to rest to avoid having a stroke!
If I had had accessible health care when I first found out about my high b.p.,
I would have gotten immediate care for that very treatable condition and
would have logged several less sick days.
(I have tried some alternative treatments and they have had no effect on my b.p. I don't know the cause of my high b.p., other than genetics. I have restricted sodium for years because my mother had high b.p.)

I have been uninsured for most of the last twenty years.

For over seven of those years, I have worked for the State of Virginia, logging at least 31 hours per week of work.
I currently work 40 hours a week for Virginia Social Services as a P-14 employee.
Despite my 40-hour work week, I am not a Classified employee and thus am uninsured and receive no paid sick-leave.
When I am ill, I simply tough it out at home, unpaid.
With the premier of Michael Moore's documentary movie
"Sicko" and the health insurance (or lack thereof) crisis at the forefront of the discussions and platforms of many candidates seeking the 2008 presidential nominations, it is time for me to start this blog.
I am one of some 45+ million Americans without any health insurance,
the vast majority of whom (0r their parents) are working.
Many more lack coverage for certain conditions, long-term coverage or are
mired in debt from excessive co-pays and deductibles.
In most states, including Virginia, most working people are excluded from the Medicaid roles and may, believe it or not, make too much money to qualify for sliding scale care at clinics and prescription assistance programs. Yet private coverage for individuals and families remains too expensive for most working Americans.
This blog will be a record of my struggle to find accessible,
affordable health care to treat my current high blood pressure and any other conditions I may have or develop. I won't bore you with the details of my bodily functions/conditions or TMI (too much information!) but I will detail how I do
or don't obtain the treatments for such conditions.
If you are uninsured, you will understand exactly what I am writing about.
You've been there. You ARE there.
If you are insured, you might gain an understanding of what the struggle
to attain a basic human service is like for others who lack that service.
You might become more compassionate.
Thanks for reading!