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Health Care Reform, an LMTs prospective

I recently read an article in the massagetoday.com magazine which is mailed out. Regarding health care reform and making alternative medicine a front line provider of health care in which we try to keep people healthy instead of reacting to emergencies. What a novel idea keep people healthy and lower the costs of health care.

After taking a step back I would have to agree with the writer that out health care system as it stands rewards providers for praying on the injured and sick. It does nothing to try and keep people  healthy and prevent injury or illness.

Is this just a pipe dream of making LMTs, DCs, OMDs and acupuncturists on the front line of the health care system. Could you been doing maintenance on a patient to keep the body healthy rather than being reactive to injury and illness.  Could a practitioner be rewarded for keeping a patient healthy rather than having to be bed ridden?

Turning health care on it head. Just a pipe dream or something that our association should lobby for in Congress.

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One Daytona Pride Festival (Chair Massage)

chair1Carroll working on the president of the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach during the One Daytona Festival Jun 28Th. The event went over very well with considerable press on the front page of the Daytona News Journal Monday Morning.

chair2 Press Harder they wanted her to inflick pain. Who knows why?

Getting someone to relax or massage in a chair they seem to think pain is a good thing. I am here to say, No it’s not. You don’t need to inflict pain to get the client to relax on your chair. Experiment with this. Have someone sit in your chair for 20 minutes without even touching them.  Then poll them before you start and after. See if they feel better?

You might be surprised at the results. The client can have the back relax and feel better simply by sitting in the correct posture. So many of us today sit at desk without the proper back and typing posture. Ergonomics of the 70’s and 80’s was found to be painful in the long run yet. Manufactures still make desks in the same fashion as they have for years.

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Senator Dodd Conference Call with Doctors for Healthcare Reform

These are simply notes that I took during a conference call with Senator Dodd co-sponsored by Doctors for Health care Reform and the CWA. Which are sponsoring a bill in Congress for healthcare reform. Their goal is to give health care to all Americans.

 
June 18, 2009 - Ted Kennedy’s absence was acknowledged and we were told that he was cheering for the passage of the health care reform bill. The bill which is still in draft has and is still going through  revisions at this time was to try and get health care into the hands of people that have no insurance at all and cannot afford health care until it is becomes catastrophic. Over 14,000 people every day loose health care, of those people 13,000 people loose their jobs everyday. So the bill is a moral, economic issue and is not something that should drag health care down and give Americans a second rate health care system.  The bill is an effort to expand health care to all 46 million people have no insurance and 90 million are under insured. Every senator has a very good health care plan that affords them many benefits. Yet, as many as, 14,000 people are put at risk by not having health care coverage.

Portion II of the bill is about quality of care,  Long term care and coverage are still being written at this time. As you hear in the news lately a public option is something that should be an option. They want the private option to be on the table and they don’t want to see private insurance go away. They want Americans to be able to get a choice of coverage.

Prevention should be in the forefront to drive down costs of insurance. The market reforms for pre-existing conditions should also be taken into account. This portion of insurance is what will help drive down the costs of insurance.  As Massage therapists we should really pay close attention to this section of the bill which will give us a foot in the door to being part of the health care system.  We should not be left out in the cold as we have been with medicare.

The writing of the bill is still being worked on very strongly. They hope to put a bill on President’s Desk before the July 4th break in Congress. They are working through the weekends and extra hours to draft and make sure that everything in past bills that was wrong is corrected in this bill.

White house/Senate/House are currently an advocate for the public option.

CWA Deloris asked the senator why should we believe that health care reform will actually get passed. Dodd said it will be a rough road and several have failed over the past 60 years. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton was the last to try and fail. Why because insurance companies put a spin on the last bill that made people think they would have all their rights and options taken away from them. That’s why a grass roots push to make it happen is needed. The insurance companies scared the public in the last bill to make it fail.

Dodd’s bill takes a lot of these failures into count and is seeing people cross over from the opposition and embrace the bill, which takes their concerns into account. He thinks because of the current economic situation that the bill has a much better chance of passing the house.

Dodd is trying to make health care affording for all Americans.
 
1-866-210-3678 this is how you can contact your senator and let your voice be heard on the matter.

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Florida CEUs Needed to renew your license

With all the new rules in effect about having to get 12 hands on hours and 12 general CEUs for the 2 year renewal period their has been confusion even for those that are providing the CEUs. For those people needing CEUs CEbroker will not even tell you what is really needed. CEbroker only breaks it down into LIVE and GENERAL categories.

What people need to be aware of is if the CEU provider registered the course as general and it should have been hands on the CEUs will not count as hands on. At this point no one has heard good or bad news from the state on weather there will be some grace period or not. The best advise is do your homework by making sure you have enough CEUs if you were to get audited.

Each year the state audits therapists at random so it is very important that you keep up with all the certificates that you get from CEU classes. File them away for a rainy day. You should keep at least 4 years worth on file just in case.

CEbroker unfortunately, costs an additional 35.00 every 2 years but can keep you out of hot water with the Board of Massage so in my book an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Why risk it if you don’t need to. If you are a new therapist and not a member of CEbroker they are also offering a 7 day free trial so you can see what the state can see as far as your CEUs posted.

It is not up to the provider to make sure that you have the correct information posted. You need to make sure that it is accurate. You are responsible for your own license and renewal, why not take the extra time you should to make sure everything is correct.

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NewAgeTouch Joins NuBarter

NewAgeTouch joins NuBarter for barter exchange for massage therapy. This is an exciting announcement because we have an exclusive with NuBarter until enough members join in the area. We look forward to a very prosperous venture.

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