With the presidential debates gearing up again we are sure to hear more about health care. But we propose a slightly different question. In addition to asking how we can get more people healthcare coverage, we should also ask why so many people are sick in the first place.The words of John Kennedy might today be, “Ask not what the health care system can do for you. Ask what you can do to reduce the health care burden”. But before delving into what we can do, let’s take a look at some realities that our next president could face in their first ‘State of the Union’ address.On the downside -* We are not healthy: 60% of adults and 20% of kids are overweight; 30% of today’s kids are anticipated to become diabetic; 20% of high school kids have early stages of heart disease. The estimated economic burden of depression for the year 2000 (most recent estimate) was $83.1 billion, and this is just one of many brain-related diseases* We are aging: within the next couple of decades, about 20% of the population will be of retirement age; 4.5 million people already have Alzheimer’s disease and by 2050 there will […]
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Amazingly, one out of five adult Americans feel that they are unable to afford adequate health care according to the latest statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. So, are you one of the 40 million people who are not able to sleep comfortably in their beds at night for fear of not being able to cope with the cost of medical treatment should you have an accident or illness? More to the point, do you have to be one of the 40 million?
The report of the CDC which was published in 2007 and explored health care in the United States looked in depth at a number of aspects of health care and found amongst other things that:
1. 10% of people cannot presently pay the cost of prescription medicines.
2. 10% of people delay having medical treatment as a result of the price.
3. As many as nearly one in three young people between the ages of 18 and 24 do not have a usual source of medical treatment or health care insurance.
4. 10% of people aged between 45 and 64 do not have a usual source of medical treatment and in the region of 50 percent of […]
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