Making Health the Goal of Health Care How much do practitioners get paid to prevent illness and regenerate people’s health? Most of the time – zero. How much do doctors get paid to treat long standing, chronic illness? Depending on health insurance – which prefers some illnesses to others – the sky’s the limit. Why […]
Shoot yourself in the heart, then donate your brain to science? Why are we killing the athletes? (5/10/12)
Pleasures and Pains Sports provide us the most delirious euphorias, the pure delight of seeing the human body to do what it’s built to do. Sports also kill and maim us. Two thousand young Americans die of sudden cardiac arrest every year, with perhaps triple the risk in athletes. When hockey enforcer Derek Boogard died at age 28, […]
“Healthy Without Health Insurance” – 12 Points
Getting Healthy – A Simple Way Now that “Healthy Without Health Insurance” is out on Kindle, people keep asking me what it’s about. I tell them it’s about getting healthy simply, cheaply, and effectively. I also tell them it has a new paradigm for real health and well-being – that if you give your body […]
What’s healthy? (5/3/12)
Health Versus Health Care Talk to Americans about health and the topic generally switches—immediately—to health care. It makes sense. Health care is our Titanic. In what other country do you spend 18% of your total economy on a crazy, dysfunctional system which ranks you 50th in the world for lifespan (according to the CIA). In the […]
Social health – getting you and the economy better (4/24/12)
Health and Economics Out of 33 countries considered to possess a “developed” economy, there is one that does not have universal health coverage. That country is the US. Historians argue why we are such an outlier. Not only do we not possess universal health care coverage, but national policies rarely reward health as the goal […]