July 2005 Issue
Dear Reader,
When I look at the deteriorating state of healthcare in this country, I increasingly think our challenge as something like taking down the Berlin Wall. Many people, including one of our graduates and her family, dedicated much time and energy to this formidable task, never knowing whether it would be successful or not. Their efforts were finally rewarded; today that wall is gone and people on both sides of Germany are re-united.
Similarly, our challenge is to help bring down the wall separating people from access to holistic health care and unbiased information about food. The current healthcare system is broken. People spend hundreds of dollars a month for medical insurance while the average doctor's visit is 3 minutes. As health care costs increase, people continue to gain weight, eat poorly and become dependant on medication. It's extremely difficult to find health professionals who talk about the simple steps people can take to dramatically improve their health. It's even more difficult to find insurance that will cover these holistic medical practitioners. Yet most people accept this system because they believe there is no other way.
It is people like you, who are aware and interested in health as a vehicle for happiness, who will bring down this wall and create a new system with human health as the number one priority. By standing up for what you know to be true, you have the power to change lives, every single day.
Now is the time. If not you, who? If not now, when?
Warmly,
Joshua Rosenthal,
MScEd
Founder and Director
