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Stress is the single most common health hazard that figures prominently in many national health surveys as the root cause for most ailments along with smoking and alcohol abuse. Stress can be brought on by a variety of factors like work which overburdens and limits time for recreational activities, bereavement or loss of a loved one, a divorce or a marriage that is due or even simply do to too many things on the mind at a time. Even though stress has so many harmful side effects, it has become an unavoidable fact permeating the fabric of our daily lives. Everybody has experienced stress at one time or the other, either at work or because of personal reasons.

Stress causes a wide variety of discomforts like insomnia, anxiety, indigestion, headaches and may result in a severe break down of one’s mental faculties when constantly subjected to it. Stress can also contribute to chronic illnesses such as heart diseases and mental depression. High stress at ones work place can adversely affect family life and may cause fissures in relationships. There are many techniques to alleviate stress and beat its associated ill effects. Techniques like meditation and pranayama, or breathing exercises can be employed effective to this end. Attending counseling sessions and avoiding possible scenarios that might pile on your stress levels also help. One can tackle stress at the work place by trying to shoulder only the least possible responsibility or by staying away from irritating colleagues. Of course this comes with the price of affecting ones career, but wouldn’t a person rather be sane than successful and raving mad.

State health insurance is often a very poor substitute for the health insurance that many full time employees of the middle to upper class receive. Health insurance determines our health more than our doctors do. Physicians are not permitted to order tests and treatments that are not life saving without the permission from the health insurance company, and all too often someone is left to suffer needlessly as a result of health insurance that won’t pay. While the poverty stricken is the most likely to suffer from a lack of health insurance, there is a growing trend of similar proportions among middle to upper class who receive health insurance through their place of employment.

When health insurance companies dictate our health we are all just a little worse off. Medical care costs are extreme and can easily wipe out a family that is well enough insured. There is a rising problem throughout the world when it comes to providing adequate care to those in need of life evolving solutions. Insurance companies needlessly hold patients with potentially terminal illnesses to a different standard than those who have a record of clean health. Insurance companies also determine the worth of a limb lost as well as the body’s most appropriate body weight. The health insurance industry has some very well paid representatives while the cost of care is perpetually skimped upon and patients are left to suffer. Health insurance for the poor is even more disconcerting, and the state offers very little progress and hope in this area.