The US spends 18% of GDP on healthcare. It is one of the biggest drags on the economy and on personal financial situations. In Australia they spend 9% of GDP on healthcare, but everyone is covered, while no one was covered in the US in 2007.
In the US, people are essentially paying other people to dig holes and then fill them back up, while accomplishing nothing but filling holes with gold. Health outcomes in the US, contrary to the mythology that is presented by the mass media, are not superior to other countries, despite stories of a few individuals flying here to have something done to them.
The costs of procedures and surgeries are MUCH higher in the US than in any other country. Those costs are so high in fact, that it is often cheaper to fly to another country, go on vacation for a month or longer and pay cash to have the surgery done in a foreign country, and one still saves money compared to paying for the same thing in the US for cash. Why is that? The cost of living in those other countries is often much higher than in the US, but the US is some where between 200 percent to to close to 300% more the the cost in the healthcare arena in other countries.
This number is pointing at a HUGE problem that exists in the US, which has not been addressed yet in a serious manner.
Why is the US, the richest country in the world at the bottom of public health outcomes compared to all other civilized countries, even with most people covered now with Obamacare, while spending 200 to 300% more for the same stuff?
Part of the issue is with epidemiologists in the US, because they don't focus on how to save lives with preventative methods that focus on root causes. And part of the issue is with how the system is set up in the first place, with a focus on profits first, symptom management second, and not looking at root causes third, while locking out all potential solutions that are outside of the monopoly box of drugs, surgery and radiation. But that is not the only problem. Certain areas of public health are like sacred cows, where no one can touch it or talk about it without getting 'burned'.
According to Epimonitor; "To back up his assertion that epidemiologists are not able to impact the problems of population health, he cited a recent Institute of Medicine study that showed the US lags behind nearly all high income countries on 9 important indicators of population health despite spending more on health care than any of these other countries. “This is exactly what is in our remit to tackle, to help do something about, and, well, someone, maybe it’s us, maybe it’s not, is failing.”
The solution, Galea said, is “a recalibration of what we do.” In calling for more research focused on questions that lead directly to doing something to improve population health, he used the example of firearm deaths to make his point. He called these deaths “outrageous calamities” and saying “there is no way to countenance this from within a discipline that is concerned with the promotion of health.” He added, “we should run, not walk, to a research agenda that addresses these issues.” Galea concluded by saying that embracing a more consequentialist epidemiology would have epidemiologists doing a few things differently, including:
1. It would have epidemiologists looking for “big wins” such as that which occurred with the reduction in motor vehicle deaths. Can we show the same curve for firearm deaths in 20 years? In 50 years? he asked.
What is the take away? The systemic problems in the healthcare system will lead to a future of faster increases in prices and worsening outcomes around this broken, dysfunctional, monopolistic, and unsustainable disease uncaring system that is focused more on increasing profits, rather than on improving health and reducing costs to consumers with preventative modalities, such as looking at large causes of death, identifying root causes and then tackling those root causes with least cost, highest benefit to the greatest number methodology.
The refusal to think or think about or do anything outside the box of short term results, higher profits, high technology, and symptom management using only high cost drugs, radiation and surgery, will lead to even worse and more expensive long term outcomes.
AGRP suggests that corporate, non profit and government healthcare decisions makers and policy makers think outside the box and look at creative solutions, instead of being like flies trapped inside of windows, and continuing to bang their heads against the same terminal problems that seem to have no solution.
One of the areas that the US lags behind other countries specifically, is in the area of toxic substances, chemicals and products. GMO foods are not allowed in Europe for example. In Europe, chemicals are not allowed to be 'grandfathered' in. In the US, tens of thousands of toxic chemicals that cause cancer, other diseases or even death are legally allowed to be in foods, drinks and other products such as clothing, bedding and homes. Walk into an average health 'spa' resort that does hair and nails, and it smells like a toxic glue factory, not a place of healing and stress relief.
Many chemicals mimic sex hormones, which have a negative impact on health, and those chemicals are in foods, skin products, drinks and more. The EU has removed these chemicals (CMR's) from their foods and more. These toxic items are easy to find and identify, but the US is not doing anything in this direction, while other countries are.
Pthalates is a specific item of concern. This chemical is added to plastic to make it soft, so it is in products that are handled and touched by kids and infants. This is an endocrine disrupter, which affects kid's health. It is in dashboards of cars, furniture, and more. The EU has removed this chemical has been removed from kid's toys. The US chemical industry lobbied and applied pressure to prevent this from happening, but the EU did it anyway. The US also went along this same path, but 10 years after the EU did, and manufacturers are allowed to keep selling the existing inventory until it "runs out". Well, when is that going to happen?
More 'root' causes of massive amounts of diseases include such things as flouride, GMO foods, low dose radiation, DU weapons, demineralized soil, gun sales/use, and more. For more information on these subjects click on the links below.
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