Rising Cost of Health Care
The rising cost of health care may not be what you would think. According to several articles on my desk at the moment are indications that the cost is due to over care -- or you could call it over kill.
From one point of view the more visits, the more prescriptions, the more hospital time, the more tests ---- result in more death.
Add together the incidents of wrong diagnosis, wrong prescription dosages, ineffective infection control and bad drug interactions and you have a staggering number of unnecessary deaths.
Advertising on TV is at an all time high for prescription drugs. Pharmacy companies are more than willing to pay the cost of advertising because their profits are also at an all time high. More and more people are running off to the doctor to get their pill for a golden life - disregarding all those fine print warnings that call attention to the side effects.
We have become overweight due to diet and lack of exercise - those conditions have produced diseases from high blood pressure to ED to diabetes and arthritis. Now those symptoms are treated with more and more drugs when the cure is proper diet and healthy exercise.
We are looking at more and more incidents of disability and death that could have been prevented with simple changes to life style. I said simple not easy. If it was easy, we would all be in perfect health.
On the prevention subject, consider this little tidbit from a recent health report on Cinnamon
http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=21996
The following is taken right from the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000): "Of 13 countries in a recent (health) comparison, the United States (the most modern and advanced in the world) ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom)..."
Additionally, the U.S. ranks:
· Last for low birth weight
· Last for neonatal and infant mortality overall
· Eleventh for post neonatal mortality
· Last for years of potential life lost
· Eleventh for female life expectancy at one year of age, and next to last for males
· Tenth for age adjusted mortality (life expectancy after age 40)
The World Health Organization, using different indicators, ranked the U.S. 15th among 25 industrialized nations.
Those numbers have not gotten any better in the last 8 years. If anything they are worse. It is up to you to decide what you will do about your personal health care. Will you take action or just leave your life in the hands of someone else who earns a living from your illness.
We all want to be healthy. But, if you are reading this while smoking a cigarette and drinking a soda, you might want to consider increasing your insurance - you are going to need it.
until next time - smile even when it hurts
Sharon
AnswersForYourHealth.com
From one point of view the more visits, the more prescriptions, the more hospital time, the more tests ---- result in more death.
Add together the incidents of wrong diagnosis, wrong prescription dosages, ineffective infection control and bad drug interactions and you have a staggering number of unnecessary deaths.
Advertising on TV is at an all time high for prescription drugs. Pharmacy companies are more than willing to pay the cost of advertising because their profits are also at an all time high. More and more people are running off to the doctor to get their pill for a golden life - disregarding all those fine print warnings that call attention to the side effects.
We have become overweight due to diet and lack of exercise - those conditions have produced diseases from high blood pressure to ED to diabetes and arthritis. Now those symptoms are treated with more and more drugs when the cure is proper diet and healthy exercise.
We are looking at more and more incidents of disability and death that could have been prevented with simple changes to life style. I said simple not easy. If it was easy, we would all be in perfect health.
On the prevention subject, consider this little tidbit from a recent health report on Cinnamon
*****
Anti-inflammatory
As an anti-inflammatory agent, cinnamon may be useful in preventing or mitigating arthritis as well as cardiovascular disease. And as scientists increasingly understand the relationship between inflammation and insulin function in Alzheimer’s (causing some to refer to the neurodegenerative disease as “type 3 diabetes”), cinnamon’s ability to block inflammation and enhance insulin function may make it useful in combating that disease as well.
McCarty MF Toward prevention of Alzheimers disease--potential nutraceutical strategies for suppressing the production of amyloid beta peptides. Med Hypotheses. 2006;67(4):682-97. Epub 2006 Jul 7
http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=21996
The following is taken right from the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000): "Of 13 countries in a recent (health) comparison, the United States (the most modern and advanced in the world) ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom)..."
Additionally, the U.S. ranks:
· Last for low birth weight
· Last for neonatal and infant mortality overall
· Eleventh for post neonatal mortality
· Last for years of potential life lost
· Eleventh for female life expectancy at one year of age, and next to last for males
· Tenth for age adjusted mortality (life expectancy after age 40)
The World Health Organization, using different indicators, ranked the U.S. 15th among 25 industrialized nations.
Those numbers have not gotten any better in the last 8 years. If anything they are worse. It is up to you to decide what you will do about your personal health care. Will you take action or just leave your life in the hands of someone else who earns a living from your illness.
We all want to be healthy. But, if you are reading this while smoking a cigarette and drinking a soda, you might want to consider increasing your insurance - you are going to need it.
until next time - smile even when it hurts
Sharon
AnswersForYourHealth.com
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