What is wrong with our health care?
If you crash your car because you were driving too fast, do you blame the mechanic who changed your tires?
I constantly hear all over the place that our health care is too expensive for the quality of care, or it's hard for lower income households to afford insurance. I wonder though, since when is engaging in unhealthy activities a right?
If you can't afford health care. DON'T DRINK, or smoke, or eat unhealthy foods.
If the doctor tells you you had a stroke... QUIT SMOKING!
If the doctor says your liver has failed... QUIT DRINKING!
If the doctor says you're a diabetic... PUT DOWN THE FRIED CHICKEN!
It seems that people think doctors are these miracle workers who can cure diseases with medicine. NO! The medicine is those new tires that prevent you from wrecking if you are driving the speed limit.
I hear that our nation has the worse health care for an industrialized nation, but I constantly see crap like an obese woman using an electric wheelchair at Wal Mart because she doesn't want to walk. If my legs were tired from exercise, they'd tell me to leave the wheelchair for someone who is handicapped. Obesity is not a handicap, It's a burden.
It is not our health care, it is us.
If you want to complain about health care then start by taking care of yourself, bottom line.
I understand there are certain aspects of health beyond peoples control, but if you get cancer, start eating more produce and less meat and exercise.
Hacking excessive amounts of meats and adding more vege's and beans to your diet reduces your risk of cancer by 40%... Beans are cheaper than meat, vege's are cheaper than meat.
No sense in getting cancer and smacking yourself in bed for the rest of your life causing you to get fat and add a heart problem to your list of issues.
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
There is a certain amount of truth in what you posted. Wellness and Preventive Medicine are always a great idea. There are certain things that we can do to maintain good health, and we don’t need insurance for that.
However, what do you do about people, including children, who were exposed to carcinogens through no fault of their own? I am referring specifically to poor persons that attended old school that were loaded with asbestos or lead based paint, or who live in areas where industry polluted the ground water or the soil? These folks generally have no health insurance, and will generally delay medical attention until their condition has reached a critical state, which ends up costing much more. If they had insurance, they might have went to seek medical attention early, received treatment, and might have even been cured.
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
I don’t disagree with you. But we NEED to de-couple health insurance from work benefits.
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
What Healthcare?
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
Health care in America is the best in the world; Obama is feeding into the popular new thought that successful, productive Americans should pay for health care of deadbeats.
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
So, I was diagnosed with stage 3D non Hodgkins lymphoma when I was 8 years old. I was lucky enough to survive, not relapse and have been considered cured by the best cancer specialists in NY for over 10 years.
I can’t get private health insurance based on that. By the way, I drink very moderately, don’t smoke, work out daily, and am of average weight with no genetic markers in my family background other than high blood pressure.
I am what is wrong with the US health system.
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
It’s true, we abuse food consumption and other rights that we have and that forces health care companies to raise prices and deny people the help that they need in order to keep the business afloat. Still though, US health care companies are corrupt, because they don’t stop at raising prices, they continue to raise them until they reach the pinacle of their projected income. That is what needs to change, health care needs regulation.
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
Nice rant … but fundamentally flawed
(Blue pretty much put you in your place)
While I can’t disagree that its us that is the problem, you make it all to clear to me that the problem is more about lack of education
August 6th, 2010 - 17:26
Health care should be a right & not a for profit business who declines claims just to make more money. Also CEO’s should never get hundreds of millions of dollars bonuses from running a health care business.