Kiwi Prevention
As a permanent resident of New Zealand I spent some pleasurable months on Waiheke Island. A cozy spot 30 minutes outside Auckland perched in a blue blue pacific. It is like a little Carmel California without California....The Kiwi people are as beautiful as their country..in N.Z. each citizens health care is a civic right...it is much more cost effective for the government to promote and maintain good health and address health care issues long before the problems get worse when the eventual repair costs escalate. In America the system pushes, smoking habits, drinking habits, fast foods habits....and then our system pushes a private health care system to squeeze the money out of the now seriously ill population.

Example: A regular joe who earns less than 100 grand a year has a poor diet compounded with hours of stressful driving to and from a meat grinder of a job. He lives on heavily advertised fast foods while driving to and from his home he can barely afford which is miles from where he works.

Poor quality foods mean poor digestion and the resulting reduced health rapidly brings down his quality of life. Additional self inflicted tension and stress result with stomach problems which he now attempts to correct with the advertised antacid. His habit patterns do not change...rather the symptoms are addressed with short term fix. In the TV commercial the ill guy is still at the cheap food counter but NOW he takes is antacid to make it better. After the ulcers grow and all the off the shelf products have all been purchased then he is forced to pay for an expensive doctor to fix his now really broken tummy. These hypnotic media stimulated events result with his very limited monies now being spent in an attempt to stop his awful pain. The more the pain the more he will spend.

What is cheaper...a government flu shot or you being 3 days out of work with a temperature. Cheaper for who ? In the states it is cheaper for the government to let you get ill than provide free public health injections. Sorry about that U.S. citizens....also in the big picture the more older Americans with limited retirement monies who get sick and die sooner than later saves Uncle Sam a ton of money. We did have a flu vaccine shortage not long ago....strange...not a shortage of Buicks, or Condo's, or a shortage of TV shows, or a shortage of soft drinks.....only a shortage of Flu vaccines......strange.

When the profit factor is removed the health care decisions are made based only on your physical health...not your financial health. Rather than some connected profiteer making a bundle of cash by contracting all health care workers to all hospitals ....all the money is spent on health care....for example in New Zealand the local friendly dentist visits the school...and its all covered...no profit motivation. No need to pay for TV commercials to help you find a dentist. No need to pay for the HMO, no need to pay the 3rd party billers.....Imagine that.... a government helping maintain the health of its own citizens ! The entire system saves bajillions of dollars in health care costs. Much, much more money left to adapt persons homes when their need arises. Why blow a life time of savings in a few months while laying in a bed in a 99 bed holding station....when for far less money you could adapt your own home...maintain independence, get in-home therapy and retain the funds you have spent a life time earning.......Oh I miss New Zealand.....
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 3:59 PM