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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (18617)	8/4/2010 6:41:57 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>>A normally healthy person does not need a doctor or a nurse. There are some public health advices that might make you go to a doctor, but that is usually based on national economic motives That's funny. We were told that preventive doctor visits were the KEY to good health. That more such visits would make people more healthy and therefore save us money.

To: dybdahl who wrote (18617)	8/5/2010 1:59:10 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

In the US there is an industry called health and fitness. It includes much of what you mention. Pills and potions are also included. A gym is in the health industry. Others include tanning, protein powders, weight loss regimes and dietary supplements, etc. are as well. If government just regulated the worst offenders out of existence there could be plenty of money to pay for socialized medicine. A normally healthy person does not need a doctor or a nurse. There are some public health advices that might make you go to a doctor, but that is usually based on national economic motives. Americans are told that visiting a doctor annually to check for unnoticed conditions is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. There is always a wide range of healthy lifestyles and people pushing them. I suspect that Americans have been more susceptible to being taken by charlatans than most non-Americans. The more ill you get, the more health care costs. In many contexts it makes sense to measure illness in health care dollars. I disagree in part due to demand driven sectors such as weight loss and cosmetic surgery. Healthy can best be determined by uniformly lifespans and to a lesser extent by normalizing for different risks.