"...and the minimal that can be gotten away with while still keeping the country basically healthy."
Sure, take care of those are sick. That's a necessary part of a civilized, healthy people. However, I believe if the focus was put on preventative health, ie a small surgery to prevent a large one, promoting good food and exercise, along with a STRONG focus on creating vaccines or cures for those issues that currently have none, or for which the treatments are not entirely effective or, in some cases, nearly as bad as the issue itself... I believe that only then will we have health in this country. You can't make people well when their lives and our ineffective health system don't show them how to be. You can't make people well when you're playing catch-up on the ones that aren't. You need to make it so that fewer get sick in the first place (and for the economically-minded, less sick people = less money spent on making them better).
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Re: not republican, just curious
Date: 2008-06-11 05:49 pm (UTC)Sure, take care of those are sick. That's a necessary part of a civilized, healthy people. However, I believe if the focus was put on preventative health, ie a small surgery to prevent a large one, promoting good food and exercise, along with a STRONG focus on creating vaccines or cures for those issues that currently have none, or for which the treatments are not entirely effective or, in some cases, nearly as bad as the issue itself... I believe that only then will we have health in this country. You can't make people well when their lives and our ineffective health system don't show them how to be. You can't make people well when you're playing catch-up on the ones that aren't. You need to make it so that fewer get sick in the first place (and for the economically-minded, less sick people = less money spent on making them better).