If this went according to plan, I agree. However in reality people don't take the basic steps first. I have told you a hundred times now, people would be 10x healthier if they did the basic things they know to do, but don't want to do. Instead, surgery, medication becomes the easy solution.
And I would agree with you.. MR obtuse.. yes.. we would be much healthier as a population if we had less stress.. took more vacations, worked less, ate less and exercised more.
BUT.. that's not the benefit from healthcare. Healthcare.. benefits you from things like when you hurt your back.. the medication, the therapy, the injection and even the surgery.. get you back to working.
Healthcare benefits you when you have diabetes.. and now you have a medication that helps you.. so you don't end up in a diabetic coma.
Healthcare benefits you from by giving inoculations against polio.. measles.. etc.
That's where healthcare benefits you.. not from a doctor saying "your fat.. lose weight"...
You are purposely being obtuse about this....
Uncontrolled diabetics grow on trees, especially with medicare/medicaid.
Actually no,, it doesn't.. because they ARE controlled with medications.
SURE.. a few of them could be controlled without medication if they lost weight and exercised. But my 80 year old patient who is 5 foot 4 and weighs 110 pounds is not diabetic because of her lifestyle.. you ridiculous dude.
And the ones that could be controlled without meds.. but choose not to lose weight and exercise etc? Well..its still cheaper to medicate them.. than to say.. "oh well.. to bad for them".. and then have to deal with an hospital stay for a diabetic coma.
Fair enough. Let them pay cash then. Solved?
No.. not solved.
You have taken away their healthcare insurance.. for the governments and then you have taken away the healthcare from them because the government doesn't approve of their lifestyle.
How far you willing to go? No treatments for venereal diseases because it due to "lifestyle?"
No treatments for heart problems because you smoked for 20 years ago?
I bet I could find a lot of medical issues that you have or will have do to your lifestyle.
Right. A "physician" here suggesting that a report suggesting "limited evidence" somehow draws a link. In publication land, limited evidence means to say "unlikely caused".
Actually no.. in medical literature.. limited and suggestive evidence indicates that there is as distinct possibility of a link.
NO evidence.. would suggest just that.
Its why the VA accepts it.
Further, diabetes has been show to be linked to cancer, but not the other way around
Not true since many cancer treatments can lead to changes in sugar levels and diabetes.
Again, spend less time on the internet and more time running your imaginary business, acting as CEO for a major health system, and getting your obese kids some exercise.
You seem to have severe cognitive dissonance here sir. OR tremendous problems with reading comprehension. My children are NOT obese. They are extremely fit actually.
The problem is that they are PRONE to obesity and it takes considerable lengths to prevent them from becoming obese.
Something that I made extremely clear.. but you seem to miss it.
Like I said..anytime you want to spar with my kids... you are welcome to do it. I even suggest you call them fatties.. so then you can see just how out of shape they are..
Better yet.. if they dislocate your shoulder or elbow,.. you can then go without healthcare and return to work.. because of course healthcare has no value.
:doh
