ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Eric the Green]

(08-15-2017, 04:04 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(08-15-2017, 10:32 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-15-2017, 02:19 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(08-14-2017, 03:49 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-01-2017, 04:19 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I myself am in the "not-quite-elderly" category, so I have a strong incentive to give us the best system.  However, the best system is not one that makes us sick and then gives us expensive, counterproductive medical care by bankrupting the next generation.

The best system is one that keeps us healthy.  That involves better diet and lifestyle, not more medical care.  The more money you throw at the medical system, the worse it gets.

OK, but don't have cancer, a stroke, any of a hundred ailments involving internal organs, or a major accident requiring surgeries and rehab.

No worries.  Better diet and lifestyle prevent cancer, stroke, etc.

My wife worked in an oncology practice for roughly 10 years.  Lifestyle helps, but it is far from a preventative.  Mostly, it made it easier to recover.  Yes, lung cancer, and a few others, are mostly lifestyle triggered, but many are due to predisposition, environmental issues (often unknown ones) or to factors not all that well understood at all.

The environmental issues are unknown and the other factors not well understood because it is against the interests of the medical and health insurance establishments to permit the knowledge to be widespread.  After all, they make many orders of magnitude more money on cancer surgery and chemotherapy than on vitamin D supplements and sunshine.  Dig enough and you can find the data, though.

Now there, as John McLaughlin would say, you have lurched uncontrollably into the truth.

(at least in part; we still need the medical system)