[lit-ideas] Re: health care in the US

This is an example of where financial incentive lessened a field as much as it 
improved it.  When doctors made housecalls, they were glorified ministers.  
Today few go into medicine to help anyone.  There's also way too little 
emphasis put on prevention.  Genetic conditions notwithstanding, most diseases 
can be prevented, even unto nearly death.  I'm sure that if I weren't a 
heavy-on-the-fruits-and-vegetables vegetarian who exercises, I doubt very much 
that I would have anything near the health I have.  Look at Jack LaLanne, who 
eats the way the body was designed to eat and exercises prodigiously.  He's 90+ 
with the strength and resiliency of a young man.  So is it luck, or is it 
prevention?   

American food is disease causing.  It literally wasn't designed to be eaten by 
the human body, let alone in the quantities in which it's eaten.  It's like 
taking a car designed for gasoline and running it on diesel and never 
maintaining it.  It'll run but not real long and not real well.  I read that 
for the first time life expectancy in the U.S. went down for the next 
generation, because of obesity.  Neither the food industry nor doctors have any 
incentive to promulgate health, and consumers aren't picking up the baton 
either.


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<<if that is a
doctor's made a home visit.>>

Doctor house calls died out at least 50 years ago......  if you're entirely to 
sick to drive to the Dr., you have to call an ambulance.  To the tune of a 
couple thousand dollars.

Julie Krueger

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