| With the movement to reform health care, and | | | | credence to the power of nutrition, or is the |
| the promotion of an undesirable healthcare reform | | | | healthcare industry just not trained in prevention? |
| bill, many are looking for solutions, as most people, | | | | The healthcare business (and it is a business, it |
| if not in direct "need" of a doctor, know someone | | | | could have been called "wealthcare" for the |
| who is. Yet, for some reason, they do not want | | | | doctors) addresses the sickness industry, and |
| to pay for that person's healthcare. I wonder | | | | does not promote wellness. For example, is the |
| why! I am writing in part due to a death that | | | | person who, because of clogged arteries has a |
| could have been prevented, if health care was not | | | | bypass, well? How many people have had to have |
| in the business of big money. | | | | another bypass? What is the cost of one bypass? |
| Yes, healthcare has traditionally made a business | | | | How does one bypass affect a person's financial |
| off of people's sickness, and has not promoted | | | | situation, even if the surgery was totally covered? |
| wellness, thus another victim of this insanity has | | | | Compare this with the person who by right eating |
| died, leaving 2 little ones motherless. | | | | and lifestyle habits avoids the bypass altogether. |
| Today's news is evidence that the law recognizes | | | | What is the cost of eating right, even accounting |
| the rightfulness, the duty, of prevention, even if it | | | | for extra measures taken, such as joining a health |
| is via administration of a necessary vitamin (in this | | | | club, or taking antioxidant supplements? |
| case, mineral), instead of drugging, cutting, or | | | | My proposed solution is to promote learning and |
| otherwise ineffectively "taking care" of the | | | | to prevent disease. This would basically call for a |
| problem! | | | | total re-focus of the healthcare industry from just |
| For those who haven't heard, I am referring to a | | | | treating sickness, to focusing on wellness and the |
| 44 year old woman, Caroline Johnston, who died | | | | prevention of disease. At the least, it will save |
| this last week of a lack of potassium. The | | | | millions of dollars, and at the most, trillions, with |
| emergency room personnel had determined that | | | | many lives bettered and saved. Sounds like |
| she was dehydrated, and had low levels of | | | | reform to me! To do something to take back |
| potassium in her system, but only gave her the | | | | control of your health and finances, visit my |
| water, not the potassium (her family just won a | | | | website below. |
| suit for malpractice). Would it be giving too much | | | | |