Buying Better Healthcare in the U.S.
According to a report in the May/June edition of the journal Health Affairs, the U.S. is spending more than double on “healthcare” than in other industrialized countries and yet has little to show for it.
We all know that what is being called “healthcare” is really some sort of disease treatment protocol which is not bringing the U.S. better results anyway. Evidence to this is shown in the fact that the U.S. ranks in the lower 50 percentile of major industrialized nations when it comes to life expectancy and infant mortality.
It was reported that the U.S. spends $4,270 per person as opposed to $2,000 per person in other industrialized countries which offer the same, or better results in “heathcare.”
As the report suggested, the extra costs in the U.S. are going to increased use of new medical technologies. This makes for happy pharmaceutical and medical industries, but it was noted that the higher spending did not guarantee happier patients.
So that would leave $2270 per person in the U.S. that could be spent on actual healthcare and their would still be the $2000 per person to spend on disease treatment protocols. One may begin to wonder what those in the U.S. could do to better invest $2270 per person in health.
Let’s begin with chiropractic wellness care: (your first choice in healthcare)
$20 per week x 52 weeks = $1040 per year
Add to that better nutrition:
$7 per week x 52 weeks = $364 per year
How about reimbursement for your gym membership?
$7 per week x 52 weeks = $364 per year
Or maybe reimbursement for the bottled water you drink?
$7 per week x 52 weeks = $364 per year
Add all of those figures and we would only have $2132 per person. Obviously the numbers may vary as some may spend more on chiropractic wellness care, or nutrition, or exercise, or many of the other things we already do to promote health and wellness in our lives and are paying for out of our own pockets.
But the $4,270 per person is not being spent on U.S. healthcare, its being spent on sickcare. Sickcare in the form of more drugs, more surgery, and more medical treatments, with a result of more unhappy patients.
For the U.S. to have more happy patients and a healthier society, we need to apply less sickcare, and continue to promote health and wellness, allowing people to realize that they are the source of their being. They themselves are the source of wholeness and happiness and health.
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