The World Bank President predicts we are one shock away from crisis. He, Robert Zoellick, "cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk "losing a generation".". Ten months ago, The Economist quoted Reed Abelson of the NY Times as saying: "Health insurers, Mr Abelson reports, are experimenting with paying the salaries of extra nurses in doctors' offices assigned to manage chronic medical cases and avoid acute episodes. This can prevent patients with chronic conditions from having to go to the hospital, which can save the insurers more money than the nurses' salaries cost."
Prevention does not pay the insurers sufficiently but illness does. That ought to make people want to turn to a one payer system without a profit motive, but it doesn't seem to strike enough people as making sense. Too many people are too quick to believe propaganda. It reminded me of the time a woman refused to believe that a Bishop in the Catholic church had sired a baby out of wedlock even though he personally admitted to it on TV. A woman in the audience said she didn't believe it because he was a man of God and had taken an oath. With naivete like that, why do we need people who can take facts and interpret them accurately?
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Of course, it is too much to hope that people will acquaint themselves with healthy habits, diet and good hygiene. They will continue to smoke though the Surgeon General has cautioned them for over thirty years on the physical dangers involved. Women continue to smoke, lose the collagen in their face, and spend a fortune on worthless products to replace the collagen by oral intake.
There is no way we can make people take care of themselves and they aren't bright enough to see that the government has been doing the best job of it with seniors through Medicare. Some day more will understand that if the legislators are trying to get rid of something it is because it works and is a threat to profit seekers.
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