Sick Care System Versus Preventative Care System
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Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) online Op-Ed piece “Shifting America From Sick Care To Genuine Wellness” bluntly stated what politicians and health care lobbyists need to know: America must become a disease prevention nation rather than what we are–a chronic disease nation. Senator Harkin is senior member of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and chairs the Senate panel that funds medical research and health care.
Harkin must know about the Department of Health and Human Services (CDC) #1 recommendation to prevent falling: Begin a regular exercise program that requires balance and coordination. He assuredly must have read the June 22 TIME/The Health Issue wherein Dr. Rosanne Leipzig from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine said “Exercise, exercise, exercise. It’s the only wonder drug we have.” TIME’s writer Tiffany Sharples added that adults who are physically active not only have a lower risk of disease, depression and chronic pain but are also less vulnerable to dementia.
Senator Harkin says we have a “sick care system.” Harkin points out that a mind-boggling 95% of our health care dollars are spent on treatments. President Obama advocates the largest investment ever in preventative care.
There is a great need to actively prevent disease rather than wait to treat seniors with broken hips (average cost $20,000), Alzheimers, Huntingtons, Parkinsons, ADHD, anxiety disorders, depression, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, prostate cancer, breast cancer, obesity–at a cost of $2.3 trillion.
It takes 28 days to change a “bad habit.” Why’s it taking so long for U.S. to improve the health of the American people?
[in June, the soon-to-be-financially-bankrupt state of California discontinued all funding for exercise classes at senior center residences. One senior living facility in Huntington Beach wasted no time converting their exercise room into a sitting lounge with sofas and large flat screen television, complete with pizza night.]
Seems politicians and lobbyists aren’t the only ones to blame.
Sparking PreventActive Training Center, Body Builders Gym, Silver Lake CA; Erik Flowers co-owner/Personal Trainer. http://www.bodybuildersgym.com email: erikflowers@ymail.com
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One Response to “Sick Care System Versus Preventative Care System”
By rwisher on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply
“It takes 28 days to change a “bad habit.” Why’s it taking so long for U.S. to improve the health of the American people?”
Uh, because it’s not their job?? I mean, do you really want Barney Frank, Harry Reid and Nancy (I have had so many face lifts that when I pass gas I burp!) Pelosi? Really?
It isn’t government’s job or anybody else job or right to tell a person how to live. Don’t get me wrong, we have been on this very slippery slope for a while now and we get used to it, but that doesn’t make it right. First it was for keeping kids healthy. Then it was for our own good. Blah Blah Blah. You let them keep this up and you’ll find not only will they tell you to exercise, but what to eat- IN THEIR OPINION!, and worse for those of you who lift heavy weights and injure your joints, pull and rip tendons, cause early heart problems because of supplements, and overall overwork your bodies that you won’t qualify for health care or surgery to correct your bad life style.
This is America. We should be able to say and do what we want, as long as it doesn’t have a direct affect on others. Direct means don’t drive drunk. Direct means don’t start a fight with some poor guy over a girl, or a beer, or a bad lane change. Direct does not mean eating a Big Mac and somehow you are taking advantage of society as a whole. That’s just dumb.
Now as far as school kids having to exercise, I agree we should encourage it. But don’t yell at the fat guys for it going by the wayside. It was caused by the same over intrusive do-gooders that push mandatory eating habits. Except they felt that exercise and games were bad for those with low skills and low self esteem. Again, just dumb.
The key here is to give people have the facts and let them decide. If they want to stay home and drink until they die, rock on! If they want to walk around the block one time or a hundred, then have at it. If they decide to do neither they should not be rewarded or penalized by government. Like I said, it is not government’s job.
RW