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  Registered Member #21 Joined: Thu Jan 15 2009, 05:17PMPosts: 6 | Scott: You nailed it when you compared the plight of the chiropractor to that of the nearly-extinct, small/diversified/sustainable family-farmers. The commodification of both food and health/healthcare over the last 50 years has been a miserable failure. Much of this commodification process took place as a result of government over-regulation and mis-regulation. Pollan should be required reading for all chiropractors. Out here in Yamhill county, there is a reannaisance of farming taking place. Young farmers (most of whom did NOT go through FFA programs), are "opting out" of the conventional agribusiness model and operating small, diversified, sustainable farms.....and since they can NOT compete with the mega farms at their own game, they are "changing the game" and going straight to the 'informed/educated' consumer with their food (via farmer markets, CSAs, road-side/farm-side stands etc.). We chiros need to NOT try to compete with the medical-industrial complex. The rules and regulations (insurance, CPTs, state/federal regs., HIPPA etc) have been set up for large players and are burdonesome and almost unworkable for most "mom and pop" businesses. Yet, since most chiros do not know any other model, they continue to plod onward operating like a "medical facility." We need to get more like Joel Salatin (in Pollan's book) and figure out simple/clever/legal ways to opt-out, in order to deliver high-quality, true-healthcare in ways that folks can access. The more we participate in the sickness-care model, the more liable we are for the mess. Cheers to you for "getting it." John Collins BTW: The editor of the journal made a not-so-small mistake on the cover. Salatin is NOT a "Grass Seed Farmer", he is a "grass farmer". The difference between the two is night and day. We do NOT ever want to be like "grass seed farmers"! John J. Collins, DC http://www.springbrookclinic.com/ | ||
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| lambertryan |
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 Registered Member #105 Joined: Mon May 04 2009, 02:07AMPosts: 2 | A quick reply to opting out of insurance panels. As a physician my first priority goes to my patients. Not being on insurance panels adversely affects my patients and will only reduce the number of patients we see because of financial burden. The OCA is created for a single voice for chiropractors. So the OCA should work with insurance panels for a fair contract. Thanks for your time. Dr. Lambert | ||
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| Spbkchiro |
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| Registered Member #21 Joined: Thu Jan 15 2009, 05:17PMPosts: 6 | Indeed, we should work together for fair contracts. But what does one do if the contracts are such that high-quality care can NOT be provided given the contract limitations and/or reimbursements? If you are a typical low-self-esteem chiro (or typical low-self-esteem family farmer) you SIGN the contract anyway and participate out of fear or some distorted guilt and hope that someday things will magically get better. But they (either insurers or, in the case of farmers, mega-sized wholesale buyers) just keep turning the screws until you are working like a dog just to pay the overhead. OR.... You (chiro or farmer) do some serious self-examination and you conclude that you are actually worth something....that you have something of tremendous value to offer society. That you have certain criteria that you WILL NOT compromise on and you just say NO to be treated like you are disposable (by the insurer or the food wholesale buyer) Take my word for it, when you start acting like this the most amazing things happen. Folks who had no money for chiropractic care suddenly have some. Your stress level goes down and your results go up. Your focus on short-term urgent relief goes down and your focus on actual health-improvement approaches goes up. Your energy goes up and your own health improves. This is what I have done in my practice and in my informal estimation only about less than 5% of the chiros operate this way....and it's too bad. So, this is the lesson we can learn from these young, smart, energetic and BRAVE farmers...(they too are only a small percentage....but their model is thriving and it will prevail because the old systems is making folks sick!) BTW here are three examples for you. This is where we get approx 60-70% of the food we eat. our veggies: www.oakhillorganics.org our eggs/chickens:http://www.sites.onlinenw.com/hopesprings/Hope%20Springs%20Brochure.htm our beef: www.mossbackfarm.com we chiros can learn a lot from these guys...they have gotten back to the original definition of farming (to nourish society, rather than "deliver caloric energy") ....we chiros need to get back to the original definition of chiropractic (help folks express optimal health) as opposed to providing pain relief for certain musculo-skeletal conditions (barf). cheers John Collins John J. Collins, DC http://www.springbrookclinic.com/ | ||
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| jaazielann |
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| Registered Member #154 Joined: Thu Jul 16 2009, 02:21AMPosts: 15 | Many people are not considering chiropratcors as doctor, does any one had encounterd this same manner? Well I'm still a student chiropractor my aunt is a chiro and as I always go to her clinic many patients are still confused about chiropractors, well how can we stop this thing is there any actions we can do? by the way I don't know if I should have start this one as a thread, I'm new in this forum and I'm looking forward to learn new things [ Edited Wed Nov 18 2009, 09:28AM ] Attending chiropactic marketing seminars had taught me a lot of things | ||
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