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While the debate continues about how to get everyone coverage so they can get medical treatment when faced with a debilitating or life-threatening disease continues on in Washington, the real message for good health is being overlooked and ignored. And that is prevention. We want to continue our unhealthy ways yet not be responsible for the consequences that come as a result. While a small percentage has to do with genetics - those who are predisposed to conditions because of a family history, passed down through genetics - that makes up a small group in terms of percentages. And how will we ever know what impact a healthy diet will have on the health of a nation's citizens, and perhaps their offspring, until we make those changes and they become permanent. You can't ignore unhealthy foods and beverages, along with tobacco and even environmental influence (pollutants in the air and water for starters) as being the possible cause of many health problems we face today. The most common diet consists of unhealthy foods and beverages. Most people need to begin with a weight loss plan for starters, and that includes a healthy diet. However, the President is bellowing his usual "I have a solution" message that will make everyone healthy, so that life can continue as usual, with the same irresponsible choices being made everyday that are causing the demise of what little health we have left. The President's message regarding health care --
From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II. In recent months, we have taken a series of extraordinary steps, not just to repair the immediate damage to our economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting and sustained growth. We are creating new jobs. We are unfreezing our credit markets. And we are stemming the loss of homes and the decline of home values. But even as we have made progress, we know that the road to prosperity remains long and difficult. We also know that one essential step on our journey is to control the spiraling cost of health care in America.
Today, we are spending over $2 trillion a year on health care – almost 50% more per person than the next most costly nation. And yet, for all this spending, more of our citizens are uninsured; the quality of our care is often lower; and we aren't any healthier. In fact, citizens in some countries that spend less than we do are actually living longer than we do.
Make no mistake: the cost of our health care is a threat to our economy. It is an escalating burden on our families and businesses. It is a ticking time-bomb for the federal budget. And it is unsustainable for the United States of America.
It is unsustainable for Americans like Laura Klitzka, a young mother I met in Wisconsin last week, who has learned that the breast cancer she thought she'd beaten had spread to her bones; who is now being forced to spend time worrying about how to cover the $50,000 in medical debts she has already accumulated, when all she wants to do is spend time with her two children and focus on getting well. These are not worries a woman like Laura should have to face in a nation as wealthy as ours. (Full article from USAToday.com)
Comments: While this oft repeated message from the president about how he inherited so many problems from what seems to be the past century (and I think this theme is getting old), he still misses the facts about what it takes for a society to be healthy. It's not the lack of medical coverage, or the inability to pay for a visit to the doctor, or the lack of access to a specialist who can treat a specific condition. In other words, it's not about treatment. Those things are all nice, but they only have significance for a very small percentage of people who have been unfortunate to be stricken with a medical problem because of reasons that are beyond their control (a genetic predisposition?). These are the people to whom help should be provided (to what extent, I don't know, or how). It's not unfair or even heartless to say that those who have a condition that is due to their own negligence, poor choices, or yes even unwillingness to get a job and pay for their own coverage when they are more than capable...should not be provided a handout for expensive care and/or treatment, neither of which is a guarantee for a return to a good quality of life anyway.
There are some flaws in this approach, the first of which is who determines, and how is it determined in which category an individual fits? I suppose such questions that address diet and lifestyle behavior can be asked, or records reviewed to determine such (if there are records). Tests could be performed for the presence of nicotine or other chemicals, and to determine cholesterol and BMI, things that could only be present due to lifestyle choices. This is only a short-term possibility, regardless. The real change that must be addressed is every American's diet and lifestyle. Period. The old saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to make unhealthy choices and suffer the consequences, then you should suffer the consequences... not expect money that every other individual worked hard to make pay for your health problems.
So really, it comes down to this: it's about HEALTH - getting healthy, staying healthy, maintaining good health, making healthy choices. And, if we know the major contributors to a large percentage of American's health problems - processed foods, fast foods, sugary foods and drinks, tobacco products - then we have an obligation to: 1) inform the public about the possible consequences of their actions; 2) provide some incentive for the makers of those products to change them (insist on it?); and 3) having provided the education of the downside to consuming and using those types of products, hand over full responsibility to each individual to take care of, and handle their own health "care" if a problem arises. That's it. In two words, PERSONAL RESPONSIBLITY.
The government 'takes' enough of our money to do with what they see fit. And the government has NEVER, ever been profitable in any business they have owned, lent money to, or managed...ever. If they stuck to maintenance of the country, along with defending it and providing a safe place to live, we'd be much better off. It's amazing what happens when we as individuals are placed in a position of having to come up with solutions for our own well-being. We thrive. Given a handout, we don't.
The Health & Wellness Institute, PC
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