There’s been lot’s of talk about using preventative measures to lower health care costs during all this reform hoop-la. I’m here to tell you “their” idea of prevention won’t save anything, and will cost extra, because it’s not prevention at all but just being proactive. Heart disease: “they” say early testing and monitoring is cheaper than by-pass. It is, but stress tests, MRA’s and angio-grams cost $10K each and then your avg cholesterol medication is about another 7 grand a year. It’s cheaper for the insurance company for you to have a heart attack and die, that’s called hedging your bet. Read more
I. End the corn subsidy. Corn is processed into corn syrup, a highly inflammatory, high but empty calorie goo that makes us fat and promotes disease. It also alters the histology and biochemistry of the animals that eat it; which in turn alters the biochemistry and histology of us meat eaters. Cows should be eating grass. Corn makes them bigger and is cheaper because of the subsidy. Take the money and put it to health care, and the increased cost will force farmers to raise healthier meats.
II. Tax fast food, prepared, processed and junk foods that all tend to be cheaper than healthy foods. Read more
About 6 months ago I quit paying alot of attention to the news. I still listen to NPR, watch Stewart and Colbert and read homepage headlines; but I’m not super-engaged. So what I’m saying is, I’m not really that sure what is going on with health care reform, except it isn’t really going. I do know that no one is even really talking about health care reform, but health care finance reform (and not really doing much with that either).
I’ve started this blog to further promote health, wellness and prevention. The real thing, not how a politician or salesman uses those words. Quickly, I am a trained chiropractor with physical therapy priveleges in Bel Air, MD. Read more