21cWellness : Message: 21st Century Wellness eLetter, No 2, Vol 15

21ST CENTURY WELLNESS eLETTER(tm)

(The archive, online copy will be added later in November)

Volume 2, Issue 15 - October 31, 2000

This is your free, monthly email newsletter on healthcare,
focusing on full-spectrum - complementary - healthcare methods.

Consumer Membership -- Our drive to establish a consumer membership base did not work. We haven't tried to figure out why; we will just accept it. However, we will continue to be supported to by our Practitioner Members and other personal financial resources, becoming more aggressive in building out Practitioner base. We have removed all the requests for donations on the site except on the home page and the Members List. If you are a CWMember Subscriber, you will receive a refund.

Update Site has new Headers -- We've updated our site's look a bit, which is most dramatically seen in the eGuide chapters, many of which have been newly updated per our last newsletter. See www.CompWellness.com.

Complementary Healthcare Practitioners, Stand and be Counted! Since we are no longer attempting to be a consumer-sponsored site, we are focusing on information and activities to benefit the practice of Complementary Healthcare and Wellness, for both the consumer and the Practitioner.

This will involve more attention to politics and economics of maintaining open access to Practitioners and for Practitioners to stay in business, as well as continuing deeper and wider information on:

Complementary Healthcare Modalities
Insurance company actions
Using the Internet for healthcare/wellness research
Other professional and consumer groups' sites and activities
More healthcare/wellness breakthroughs.

We'll also be introducing a step-by-step wellness series -- important for everyone.

So Practitioners ... please support your business and your clients by joining our group and site at www.CompWellness.com/join.htm. It is still very reasonable with discounts for multiple practitioners at the same address and for partnerships.

The Big Island of Hawai'i and its older brother Oahu -- we've spent the last two weeks catching up from nine wonderful days in the "islands." We saw some astounding sights and met some amazing people. See our "Places" article at www.CompWellness.com/eJournal/1031.htm.

The Truth about last month's Colorado News Flash, "HMO Discounts Coming for Alternative Care" -- see www.DenverPost.com/business/biz1020c.htm. According Patricia Ann Scott, Louisiana Massage Therapist and Dennis Martin, Colorado Health Insurance Agent/Broker, most of the HMOs are losing money and are looking for a way to take the load off by offering discounts to their clients to use other services. Many are not paying for the balance after the discounts, and if they are, you still have to pay a high co-pay and work through a separate deductible. Though it sounds shady and unfair, it is still making Complementary Modalities more "mainstream" and "legitimate," which will eventually benefit us all. .Are you seeing this in your state? What is your impression? Please let us know by simply hitting REPLY.

eGuide Chapter Updates Reminder -- see chapters marked Updated at www.CompWellness.com/eGuide/index.htm#TOC. Midwifery was just updated to include a link to a state-by-state chart showing midwife certification, licensure and registration in the US and Canada.

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