Healthcare Crisis In America...
If you watch TV, read the newspapers, or surf the Internet, you’ve no doubt heard about the healthcare crisis in the United States. It seems there’s something in the media every week about this disturbing topic. 

According to a recent report from a panel of experts appointed by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, ’The American healthcare system is confronting a crisis.” The report continues, ”The healthcare delivery system is incapable of meeting the present, let alone the future, needs of the American public.” These experts are pressing the Bush administration to immediately seek possible solutions, stating that, ”The cost of private health insurance is increasing at an annual rate in excess of 12 percent. Individuals are paying more out of pocket and receiving fewer benefits.”

The Christian Science Monitor declared, ”More than two million Americans lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs during the past year. That brings the total number of people without coverage to more than 41 million. That number exceeds the aggregate populations of 23 states plus the District of Columbia.” 

Studies show that uninsured individuals tend to delay care for what doctors would consider small problems until they reach crisis proportions. Then they go to the emergency room, which is the most expensive and least efficient place to get healthcare. 

”Basically, we’re in a downward spiral, and we sort of have a perpetual motion machine that’s going in the wrong direction,” says Henry Simmons of the National Coalition on Healthcare in Washington, an alliance of business and social organizations. 

Roots of the problem 
Over a million people filed bankruptcy in 1999. Of those cases, 40 percent were related to medical bills. Just two years previous to this, in 1997, only 28 percent of the bankruptcies were related to medical bills. Why the dramatic increase in bankruptcies due to medical bills? 

Harvard law professor, Elizabeth Warren, did a study on the rise in bankruptcies due to medical bills. The results of this study revealed that most medical bankruptcies were filed by people who actually had health insurance. Warren stated that underinsured people were a far bigger problem than people who were not insured at all. 

Recent statistics have shown that over 70 million people are under- insured. 

The healthcare crisis becomes even more complex as doctors go on strike to protest the exorbitant price of medical malpractice insurance. The Associated Press reported recently that ”Almost all surgeries were cancelled at four West Virginia hospitals as more than two dozen surgeons began a protest of the high cost of malpractice insurance.” 
Since there are no solutions on the horizon for the current healthcare crisis, it appears that things will definitely get much worse before they get better. Indeed, the best, most obvious way for individuals to deal with the current negative healthcare situation is simply to remain as healthy as possible. Not surprisingly, as people look for solutions to healthcare problems, more and more of them are discovering the importance of good nutrition, exercise, dietary supplements and alternative therapies including aromatherapy.

A rising trend 
The Associated Press recently reported that many of the major hospitals across the United States are increasingly using procedures such as aromatherapy to attract patients by tapping into one of the hottest trends in health care. 

This growing interest in alternative healthcare is literally sweeping the nation. A few years ago several leading national trend forecasters predicted that aromatherapy will emerge as one of the most popular wellness trends and that the use of aromatic oils will be a part of nearly every household in the United States by the end of the decade. With the recent boom in aromatherapy, this prediction is rapidly becoming true. 

Alan Hirsch, M.D., director of the Smell A Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago states that the future of modern medicine lies in aromatherapy. He predicts that within ten 
years, aromatherapy will be a regular part of every physician’s practice. 

Concerning the financial aspects of this alternative health revolution, noted economist Paul Zane Pilzer states, ”After years of researching the food and medical industries, I can now see an emerging industry in which the greatest fortunes of the next century will be created – fortunes that will eclipse the fortunes of the Internet billionaires of the 1990s. By the year 2010, an additional $1 trillion annually of the U.S. economy will be devoted to the ’wellness industry’ – providing healthy people products to make them feel even healthier, look better, slow down the effects of aging, or to prevent diseases from developing in the first place.” 

It is interesting to note that most wellness industry sales did not even exist two decades ago. Today they already total approximately $200 billion in annual sales, about half the amount spent on automobiles in the U.S. 

Success strategy 
As people become more proactive in dealing with their personal health, the future is very bright for essential oils and aromatherapy. The implications for Young Living distributors clearly indicate astounding success. Young Living is already positioned globally as the industry leader for therapeutic-grade essential oils. With the booming trend, the growth potential for Young Living is phenomenal. In addition, due to its unique business structure, Young Living offers an incredible opportunity that not only helps people live healthier lives, but also rewards them financially.

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