If I said yes, massage and music can replace health insurance, would anyone read any further? I doubt it. I’d be relegated to the barnyard with the other “quacks”.

Were you one of the millions of people who saw Michael Moore’s movie, “Sicko”? Did you leave the theater angry? Gene Seymour of Newsday says you did:

“The net effect of ‘Sicko’s’ penetrating and devastating inquiry into the way America takes care of its ill and dying is to transfer the anger to the audience rather than have Moore’s own outrage spread all over his film.”

Even if you didn’t see the movie, the anger and frustration may be there. In Moore’s movie he documents the free health care that detainees at Guantanamo Bay receive. We hear about suggestions to make free health care available to illegal immigrants. Angry yet?

According to Moore’s “SickoFactoids“, the United States is the only industrialized country in the world without a universal health insurance system, leaving almost 50 million of its legal citizens without health insurance.

Can music help heal our vulnerabilities due to lack of health care? Combined with massage, I would say yes. Some people actually call massage and relaxing music their health insurance.

I would recommend a weekly or monthly massage, but if you cannot afford health insurance, you probably cannot afford a massage either, since the most basic health insurance can be had for a very reasonable monthly fee.

We lead such busy lives. Our homes sit empty every day as we rush off to work and school. We come home and often don’t even take the time to sit around the dinner table together. We bring our work home with us, then repeat it all the next day.

Giving your partner or loved ones a massage can be an intimate reconnection, a bonding experience, a time to quietly share. You can even give yourself a foot rub, facial massage or hand massage. To enhance the experience, listen to relaxing music all the while.

I’d like to hear what you think. Does this health care situation make you angry? What do you do to care for yourself? Do you feel that what you do for yourself supports your overall health and well-being?