Walking Wounded--government victimizing disease

In all likelihood, you haven't taken a look at the new vocabulary of healthcare and the change that it has instituted in how we perceive health and, as a result, healthcare--these perceptions that underlie the concept of necessary healthcare. In fact, it goes to the very core of what we think health is.

If someone asked you to define health, would you say it was well being? Or a state or condition of the body and/or mind? Common usage, anymore, lies with the first definition despite the fact that it is actually incorrect. No matter. The point is that there is now an expectation of excellent health (aka well being) and thus we have been taught that such is a right to be demanded rather than realizing the truth that health is a state of being, good, bad or in-between. The word that says everything about how Americans, and much of the world, discern health and what is due them is wound. Wound has come to be used to describe any kind of lesion that penetrates the skin, particularly festering sores caused by an internal disorder or illness. That is an improper application of the term. According to Merriam Webster, a wound is:

"an injury to the body (as from violence, accident, or surgery) that typically involves laceration or breaking of a membrane (as the skin) and usually damage to underlying tissues."

A wound is inflicted by an outside force and yet, it has now come to mean something that wells up from inside the body. Here's where I'm going to address the ultimate twisting of the meaning and how it portrays the fundamental change (you'll recognize the phrase) of perception of health. By changing the meaning of lesion to wound, we accept that we have no control over the state of our being, our lives. We accept that we are victims of disease, it is inflicted on us and, in effect, controlled by outside sources.

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By accepting a victim's viewpoint of health, that a lesion, which wells up from the inside, is now a wound inflicted by outside force, we have taken that fatal step of abdicating responsibility and handing it over to someone or something else, making ourselves a victim

Sound extreme? Not really. Think about how natural processes of life--pregnancy, menopause, infertility, impotence, aging, even birth--have become diseases to be controlled by drugs and surgery. They are viewed as conditions outside the sphere of normal health, something that makes us victims of the symptoms. The change in the definition of wound is the epitome of thinking like a victim because anyone suffering from a lesion, whether it is caused by diabetes, cancer or other disease, is now in pain due to a power outside of their own body. By giving up on understanding that health expresses itself from an internal condition and is, instead, the result of external situations, we have given ourselves over to accepting external control of every aspect of our lives. We are wounded by everyone else's actions and the concept grows from illness and bodily needs to, ultimately, the lack of employment or finances. Here's the leap you knew was coming but would rather avoid. By accepting a victim's viewpoint of health, that a lesion, which wells up from the inside, is now a wound inflicted by outside force, we have taken that fatal step of abdicating responsibility and handing it over to someone or something else, making ourselves a victim. This is not just an analogy of what has occurred on the macro scale of the country, but it is how our insistence of ignoring internal malfunction, presuming that it is a result of external forces, that has opened the door to victim mentality and ultimate loss of power, not only over our individual bodies but over the government as a whole. We now wait to see if we will be wounded by powers that be when we should be looking for strength from within to overcome adversity. This is not a rejection of modern medicine. It is a rejection of the concept that we are subject to outside forces that first, inflict pain and suffering and, secondly, must have the answer for that same pain and suffering. Don't assume that medical professionals have purposely changed meanings to this end. As a regulated body--licensed by the government--healthcare that is meant to serve the citizenry is channeled through agencies, such as the FDA, that supply definitions and purposes to guide physicians. They "make regular" (as our researcher Toddy puts it) language, contracts between patients and doctors (enter Obamacare), services and procedures from office business to surgical methods, the outcome of which is terminology that transforms how we see ourselves... no longer the sovereign of our circumstances but the victim of them. To go further, the victim is taxed for the privilege to be a victim. The walking wounded are those who see themselves at the mercy of others, unable to take action for themselves and resigned to be victims of the "system." When even conservative commentators express acceptance of the fatally flawed Affordable Care Act that the newly elected Congress balks at full repeal, then indeed this nation is showing the signs of total capitulation--the disease of abdication is epidemic. And this when polls following the midterms and over the past year show that fully more than 58% of the nation has utterly rejected the ACA. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to entertain arguments regarding the King v. Burwell case challenging the federal government offering subsidies to ACA enrollees outside of the 13 states that have set-up exchanges. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell just announced that next year's enrollment might reach 9.1 million. Not only have the 30 million uninsured not been insured as promised, nor expect to be since the Medicaid qualifications haven't changed (ACA was determined to be expanded Medicaid in the SCOTUS ruling on the individual mandate [Page 130]), but the constant parroting that happiness is having health insurance only institutionalizes the idea that one can't enjoy life if they don't have coverage. In this, the government is emphatic to impose tripled premiums to insure happiness on the new citizen class of victim. All administered by tying on mama's apron and sympathetically shaking down the thermometer (you choose the point of insertion).