In his article, “What’s the cause of the health-care crisis? Look in the mirror,” Dr. Partick Massery, a columnist, discusses the importance of healthcare issues in the United States today; he says that we have the best service in the world, but he criticizes how we provide it to our citizens. Massery makes the bold claim that the fault lies not only in the hands of the government, insurance companies, and physician, but within the people of America themselves.
Our government is at fault because we only spend 16% of gross domestic product on healthcare; Insurance companies do not encourage prevention nor do they promote healthy lifestyles; physicians give prescriptions for drugs instead of encouraging a change in lifestyle first; and Americans themselves are all around unhealthy. Massery says that “63% of Americans are obese and 8-10% of the population has diabetes.”
His claim is that Americans’ inactivity to shift to healthy lifestyles is the problem, and that we bear the weight of that guilt; he strongly encourages us to live healthy lives.
The main problem I have with this article is that it is not totally the fault of the American people; we have been brought up in a society where we believe that taking a pill for a quick fix is good, and our doctors seem to think so too. This type of medicine is our culture, and although we need to make some changes to live healthier lifestyles, you cannot blame people who have been taught this is right for their entire lives that they are in the wrong.
To read more on this article, check out the Daily Herald website.
Our government is at fault because we only spend 16% of gross domestic product on healthcare; Insurance companies do not encourage prevention nor do they promote healthy lifestyles; physicians give prescriptions for drugs instead of encouraging a change in lifestyle first; and Americans themselves are all around unhealthy. Massery says that “63% of Americans are obese and 8-10% of the population has diabetes.”
His claim is that Americans’ inactivity to shift to healthy lifestyles is the problem, and that we bear the weight of that guilt; he strongly encourages us to live healthy lives.
The main problem I have with this article is that it is not totally the fault of the American people; we have been brought up in a society where we believe that taking a pill for a quick fix is good, and our doctors seem to think so too. This type of medicine is our culture, and although we need to make some changes to live healthier lifestyles, you cannot blame people who have been taught this is right for their entire lives that they are in the wrong.
To read more on this article, check out the Daily Herald website.
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In this article it states that insurance companies do not promote healthy life styles. This is not at all the case, there are many promotional factors that are included in insurance policies. Such as not smoking, a non-smoker will pay drastically less than a smoker. Even if one was to smoke and to quit their premium would go down. For example, a family member of mine recently quit smoking and after 2 years of not smoking and getting a check up by their doctor they were able to save money. This is just one of many things that insurance companies do not necessarily promote, but they do in fact abide to.
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