Comments on: What is Functional Medicine?

By: Frank Lipman - True Health Care Reform: 10 Missing Pieces

Frank Lipman - True Health Care Reform: 10 Missing Pieces — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:01:39 +0000

[...] makeup combined with their lifestyle, environment and social network. The effectiveness of a Functional Medicine approach to chronic disease has been demonstrated, so the tools we need to reduce the burden of chronic [...]

By: franklipman

franklipman — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:54:03 +0000

good point
Frank

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Name — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:51:13 +0000

Dear Dr Lipman–Thank you for speaking out about functional medicine. I've been thinking about your 10 points of health care reform. Although you have several great ideas, I think it's too much. People don't understand how much money could actually be saved if physicians practiced root cause medicine.I recommend limiting public explanations primarily to functional medicine and how we can be healthier at lower cost and Freedom of Choice, explaining how FDA removes useful treatments so they don't offer competition to patentable substances. Medical Savings Accounts, instead of a bunch of separate tax deductions, would reinforce Freedom of Choice and they should be available to people who don't have insurance and for Medicaid and Medicare patients. Imagine if everyone paid cash for primary care!Thank you again for your efforts.Jan CohenBoonville, MO