My Healthcare Debate

While the country argues/celebrates over Obama’s healthcare legislation, people die. After it’s finally passed, people will continue to die. They will be white, black and in between, young, old, men and women, boys and girls. We may think that we are finally covered, but not really, and not for the reasons you might think.

Simply put, the current debate is an argument over how much we extend bad coverage. It is medical coverage that does not help us to live longer, or healthier lives. We have bastardized the words prevention and wellness from what they really mean to that which is no more than early detection. True prevention makes no one rich, except the public. It elects no politicians or enriches no doctors or drug makers. Detection, on the other hand, is very enriching. The catch, however, is that you must first contract an illness before it can be detected and cured.

This is what our health system is really all about, pre or post Obama health bill. It is you catching bad things, and the system fixing them, for profit. Diabetes, hypertension, cancer, you name it. If you do your part and get yourself really good and sick, our health system will do it’s best to fix it. This is healthcare in America – and it’s killing us in every sense.

The chart above highlights the best example of my debate. Vitamin D3 is essential to preventing human illness across the board, and medical science knows this. However, if you don’t get sick there is no need for a whole industry bulked-up to fix you. So they dribble out the information about the preventative benefits of Vitamin D. They let our blood serum D levels languish low enough (here) for disease to take root and grow to the point where their profitable cures get to try to save the day. Of course, many suffer and die in this process, needlessly, but someone has to pay. Right?

How to make a healthcare system that moves the ‘Black’ and ‘White’ vertical bars of the chart to the right, out in front of the diseases – now that’s something to debate. When we do this, trillions of dollars of costs will immediately fall out of our healthcare system and back into our pockets. We won’t have to listen to ignorant politicians and compromised medical professionals debate expensive stop gaps. We will just feel better and live longer. This is my debate.

Check out the Vitamin D Council (here).

H/T: Mangans

James C. Collier

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