It’s Time to Change American Disease-Management into a Health-Fostering System

 


'from mercola.com: I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large.

Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other industrialized nations. Overcharging and over-treating are two factors contributing to this enormous problem.

Andrew Weil, author of You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care, recently jumped into the fray with an article on CNN1 and a full one-hour long CNN documentary. The documentary is called Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, which CNN premiered on March 10. Weil writes:' 


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How to Escape the American Murder Association: Simple Steps to Avoid Cancer

'One of the most unfortunate developments in modern healthcare is that the practice of medicine has become the business of medicine. The goal is not to make people healthy. It is to make a profit.

“Modern medicine” has little interest in preventing disease, because there is little profit in it. That is why virtually the entire system is based on “managing” and “treating” illness, rather than preventing it in the first place.

And nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to cancer…'

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