Healing Garden

Flying back to Milwaukee from a wedding out East this morning my wife’s pain in her leg started acting up. We had to get a wheelchair to help her to the baggage area to get her in the car. When we got home she put in a call to her doctor.

When I was going through the mail that arrived when we were gone I noticed a letter from our financial adviser with our statement. In the letter he put his “two cents” in about health care. Sadly his statements about state control health care systems like in Canada, France and Great Britain being a failure were misinformed and misleading. I was especially upset about his comments on the French Health system since they had a private/public system that is more effective and less costly than ours. This is a system we could learn from.

The reality of his misinformed statements came home as the day progressed and we attempted to get help for my wife. We discovered that our health care provider had changed networks and some of our doctors, rehab places, health and urgent care clinics were no longer allowed under our new health network. In fact I discovered that my primary doctor of 14 years was no longer covered in our new health insurance network. We stayed focused on my wife’s pain and finally got her some care.

Due to this and some other catching up I was not able to get out to the gardens today. Fortunately nature does a good job taking care of itself and ‘urgent care’ is not usually necessary. Our health care system could learn from nature as well as from other countries.

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