On Insurance for KIN List

Dear Kin-Folk,

I am writing this because this whole issue of insurance, and what it usually leads to OVER TIME, is not really about earning some extra money or making yoga available to more people or getting doctors to accept yoga as a valid approach to health and healing. These issues get right down to the fundamental principles and controversies upon which our government was originally founded, and in talking to many hundreds of people over the years on such things, are almost unknown by most people today. In fact, The Old and New Testaments of the Bible — which truly did make substantial contributions to the thinking of many of the Founding Fathers and our unique form of government — dealt with the background substance of these very issues in great detail, and serve as one of the primary divides, as far as the bible and early American government is concerned, between good and evil.

I do realize my comments might be too controversial for some or many people. But I DO find it interesting how many people want to know more about the ancient philosophies behind yoga but seldom want to know more about the philosophies that are behind the social, political and economic experiment called The United States of America. An experiment that is now apparently in potentially great trouble because we have — in my opinion – strayed so far away from our foundational principles.

I will not comment further on the more spiritual and Biblical aspects of these issues unless someone on this forum requests more insight or information.

And if you don't want to read my post below, which represents many years of my own study and direct experience, including reading MANY state and federal court cases, please read this interview with a woman who was a Medical Doctor in France, Canada and the U.S. She wrote an important book that directly addresses many of the issues that arise as yoga moves more toward insurance, standardization and state regulation. She is way more mystical than I am, but I think many of you might relate to her point of view to at least some degree. (When she starts talking about vaccines, though, she goes a bit over the top, so you could stop there if you want. And the rest of the website has some questionable conspiracy type things in it, but …) her summary of what is going on in the Big Picture – and who is controlling most health care in American and the world – is quite accurate and very well documented by many sources:

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/review/rev/item19.html

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Thanks for Showing Up Here …

HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:

I probably have WAY more to say than you want to hear about insurance and licensing and standards and all that. Having been in the massage/bodywork industry as well as yoga therapy for nearly 30 years, I have seen a LOT happen. I used to teach seminars, write articles, and so on about such issues, too. I even had a chapter on professional licensing published in a book on economics by a think tank in Chicago (The Heartland Institute).

Many years ago, in the mid 1980s, when the massage industry was moving in the direction of standards and licensing, I was in the middle of the controversy for several years, until I realized it was a lost cause. BUT, several years later, the man who was two-time President of the American Massage Therapy Association at the time this was all happening, started announcing to people in his workshops that I had been right, that the warnings I had raised were already coming true.

I could go on for pages about this, but … Here is, in short form, just one Big Danger that can happen when a profession gets started down this pathway:

Initially, it can be very benign, and you can make some extra money, you get more referrals, and so on. But as the profession becomes more profitable, OR if it starts diverting too much money away from the people who are profiting in a Big Way from the orthodox system, the regulators can start creating problems for you. OR, greedy people — and yes, there are some greedy yoga teachers – see an opportunity and find ways to exploit the situation — and YOU – by infiltrating and taking over the organization. REGARDLESS of how well you set it up, the next wave of leaders can undo much of the positive you did, and in a very short period of time.

There are a number of stories such as chiropractors waking up one morning to find their State Legislature quietly passed a law making much of what they do illegal or with many new restrictions. In one case in Michigan, it was one group of chiropractors who quietly got the laws changed to outlaw the activities of another group of chiropractors.

Another time, I think it was Florida, regulators (I do not remember if it was the state or the insurance companies who did this) all of a sudden restricted the number of chiropractic adjustments the insurance companies would pay for to 12 adjustments per YEAR. This is when a lot of chiropractors had people signing up for two or three times a WEEK for months at a time! So a good number of chiropractors who had built VERY lucrative practices all of a sudden, with no warning, found themselves nearly broke because most of their income stream — most of it insurance — was shut off.

These was not isolated events. But you do not read or hear much about these things in the regular media. You have to be in tune with the Shadow side of these issues, and the alternative media, to get the news on such things. I spent several years researching this, and spent MANY hours in law libraries around the country reading court cases to find out what was happening to many practitioners and doctors. I even interviewed, in person, five different attorneys who specialized in defending licensed doctors who were attacked, according to the court documents, ONLY because they were using **non-standard** therapies.

So the Bottom Line here is that you do NOT want to develop a lifestyle or dependence on such flows of income. Treat them as extra income, but do not become dependent on them. Laws, regulations and corporate policies can change literally overnight, and you do not want to get caught in that trap.

Another point to remember is a lesson from the award-winning book The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr: Licensing was originally set up to protect the status and income of an elite group of physicians who were, for example, attempting to recreate the status and privileges of the Royal Courts of Europe. Since Titles of Nobility are expressly forbidden by the Constitution, they had to find an end-run around this restriction. Professional and occupational licensing was an advanced take-off on the old Guild System for craftsmen in Europe.

In fact, if you look it up in a legal encyclopedia, modern professional licensure is based on a **quo warranto** action: meaning **on the Authority of the King.** They are not even really hiding this from you, if you care to look.

http://law.jrank.org/pages/9622/Quo-Warranto.html

Then, the Financial Elite saw the potential profits, and began their take-over of the health care system. And they were smart enough to set it up — via their bought and paid for influence over the public education system and media — so that most people believe it is the Free-Market that is causing the higher prices and lack of availability of good health care.

Just like the current banking and financial crisis, The Truth is exactly opposite. Free-markets always — on balance — reduce prices and increase quality  and/or availability. But regulations interfere with the free exchange between human beings, restricts innovation, certain groups are protected from competition, and prices are driven up. This is how it works, and is so well-documented it is hard to believe most people believe the opposite. But the fallacy is what is taught in most university level economics courses.

And the Brute Fact of the Laws of Nature and Human Nature is that for anything, including yoga, to become more available to more people, the price has to go down to where they can afford it, or people need to become more aware of the benefits through marketing and public education. Using licensing is against the fundamental principles of American Law, but that principle has of course been eroded dramatically.

And if you do not think the almost FIVE BILLION dollar yoga industry is getting their attention, you are just not paying attention. True, five billion is small potatoes for these people, and there probably needs to be more growth before much will happen, but you can never be too careful.

Yoga helps us understand more about the Inner Path of Peace & Freedom. The external path of Peace, Freedom & Prosperity is in my experience best described at this website:

http://mises.org/about/3223

For many years, most physical therapists did little or no hands-on massage therapy or bodywork. BUT … after the massage therapists built it up to a substantial market, all of a sudden, certain the physical therapy associations began lobbying to have massage restricted to practice by physical therapists. They of course lost that bid, yet it was a long and expensive battle. BUT, as a self-defense, the Special Interests with in the massage industry used this attempted encroachment as further justification to move massage toward licensing. (They — people whom I thought were my friends – began calling me a leader of the **Isolated Pockets of Restance.** – Am I bitter? Well, I was not, nor am not, happy about it, that's for sure. It had a huge affect on my life, not all of it positive.)

The American Free-Enterprise system was based on the idea that of the very few functions of The State, the primary function was to make sure no one committed fraud, coercion or violence upon another human being, and that they all lived up to their contracts. And that each individual was responsible for the results of their actions and accountable for how they affected other people, as well as being the just recipient of the fruits of their labors. If you did harm or defrauded someone, you would be prosecuted. Otherwise you were free to innovate and explore possibilities — and set your own prices — of your own accord. It was THIS principle that made America into the most progressive and wealthy and desirable country on earth, UNTIL the Financial Elite and Special Interests got their hands on the machinery of The State.

Protection of the public and ensuring high standards was only the rationale or excuse these seekers of excess privilege and financiers came up with to push this idea of anti-competitive licensing. If you think all this is about protection of the public, you need to do some studying to see what you are really up against.

A lot of people don't like to hear those kinds of things, but the Financial Elite and Special Interests began their take over of the U.S. government during the time of Abraham Lincoln, who was very supportive of their agenda. You can look it up:

Google: lincoln american system

Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay and Abe Lincoln's so-called American System was the polar opposite of the American Free-Enterprise System. These Corporate type people pay attorneys a LOT of money to come up with legal loopholes and ways to eliminate their competitors or otherwise improve their own situation by way of the legal system and taxation.

It took a hundred years for the takeover to be more-or-less complete, but when President Eisenhower spoke of a military/industrial complex, this also, in effect, included the MEDICAL/industrial complex, which works very hard to use the State's legal system to protect their interests and reduce, if not eliminate, competition. And if yoga gets too popular, watch out. The Doctors and their patients might love you, but the money-changers who live and work above it all, will attempt to limit your success, or find a way to control yoga, or get a Way Big piece of your action.

Even today, behind the scenes in the massage industry, a lot of inevitable problems are cropping up that are not well publicized, and I do not want to see yoga go down this very dark tunnel so that a few people can earn a little extra money. The stakes are very much higher.

And if you read all of their speeches and look at their well-established voting track-records, you will see that whether we get Obama or McCain, it will be business as usual, if not worse. The same financiers control much, if not most, of BOTH major political parties. And ESPECIALLY watch out if they move us further toward national health care insurance.

As the bumper sticker says:

If you think health care is expensive now, with until its free!

Thanks for Reading, and I truly hope this post is not too controversial.

Take Care,

David Scott Lynn