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To: i-node who wrote (199826)5/3/2009 12:36:01 PM
From: Skeeter BugRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
>>It takes a whole lot of medicine to overcome the lifestyles of a typical American.<<

so your definition of healthcare is the amount and quality of drugs?

yes, i'd say you were right - we have the best quality and highest amount of medical drugs in the world. by that definition, you have a point.

i think that definition is absurd. a better name would be drug care, not health care.

health care should teach diet - and the truth is that doctors know very little about healthy eating habits and they can't advise people on what they don't know.

here's why my definition is superior - it leads to dramatically improved health for the people within the nation.

for example, if a drug (the focus of your definition) could reduce diabetes, say 8.3% and got fda approval, every doctor in america would know about within months, if not weeks.

however, a diet that reduced the incidence of diabetes 10-x, or 83%, in a population of 14000 people studied is all but completely unknown within the medical field.

they can't tell you what they don't know and our broken health care system has no structure to teach them how learn this stuff!

the primary miss in the current system is that food *is* a drug - and it drives many of the chronic disease states the drug companies make billions fighting.

another example of the gaping hole in the current drug care system is shown with the increasing use of statins, i think it its use has gone up 50+% over the last few years - and there hasn't been a corresponding decrease in heart disease!

which begs the question, what are people really getting their drug fix?
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