Dr. Peter J. Weiss

Health­care Reform Won’t Make You Well

Are you angry about health­care reform? Me, too. The whole thing’s crazy. Lis­ten, more health­care isn’t going to help us. Has the whole coun­try gone crazy? When did we start think­ing that our health and well­ness depended on doc­tors, or depended on insur­ance, or depended on the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, or depended on any­body but our­selves?

We need to take back our health!

We can be dif­fer­ent. It’s not that hard. There are pow­er­ful forces against us though. Frankly, the government’s against us. The med­ical indus­trial com­plex is sell­ing us drugs, treat­ments, and pro­ce­dures that we don’t need, and, in fact, often harm us. The big food indus­try in this coun­try is sell­ing us toxic food and when we eat it, after their bil­lions of dol­lars of devel­op­ment and their bil­lions of dol­lars of mar­ket­ing, and we get fat, they blame us! And say we’re mak­ing “bad choices.” What’s up with that?

Lis­ten, your life is about you. It’s not about the gov­ern­ment, it’s not about the food indus­try, it’s not really about health­care either. You don’t need an insur­ance com­pany to be healthy. You don’t need a doc­tor to be healthy. You just need to decide to be healthy and look for a lit­tle help.

I’m one of the peo­ple that’s try­ing to help. I’m putting together an orga­ni­za­tion of peo­ple that are try­ing to help. There are peo­ple in your town that would love to help you learn how to eat dif­fer­ently, man­age your stress dif­fer­ently, exer­cise dif­fer­ently, and just live dif­fer­ently to break free of the health­care trap. The best way to “stick it to the man” is to be healthy your­self.