The More You Invest in Your Health the Less You Will Spend on Healing
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
by Mogama
http://www.mogama.info
Sickness is an expensive industry, but we keep pumping more money into it, because it has a pseudonym called "healthcare", "health insurance", or "the health industry", instead of the disease industry that it really is, for the most part.
We are paying for healing when we should be paying for health. Why pay for healing when we can better spend the money to remain healthy? Money spent on healing is often spent on bodily aches and pains, worries about health, time lost from work and other responsibilities, and of course, doctor visits, and medication.
On the other hand, when we buy health foods, purified water, herbal supplements and natural vitamins, we are investing in our health. That is true healthcare, and it is not about frequent doctor visits, stocking our medicine cabinets and purses with prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
The billions that Americans spend on "health" each year average out to about $6,402 per person (according to an NPR health chart). Most of that money is spent on sickness. What is construed as healthcare is often disease care under a fake name.
It's going 15 years since my wife and I got fed up paying to stop ahces and pains. We agreed to invest more in our health. Today I can testify that the investment has yielded huge dividends. We are spending very little on healing or sickness these days. Even the kids get rarely sick anymore. Take it from a guy who used to faint from severe migrain headaches: the more you invest in health the less you will spend on healing.
On the other hand, when we buy health foods, purified water, herbal supplements and natural vitamins, we are investing in our health. That is true healthcare, and it is not about frequent doctor visits, stocking our medicine cabinets and purses with prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
The billions that Americans spend on "health" each year average out to about $6,402 per person (according to an NPR health chart). Most of that money is spent on sickness. What is construed as healthcare is often disease care under a fake name.
It's going 15 years since my wife and I got fed up paying to stop ahces and pains. We agreed to invest more in our health. Today I can testify that the investment has yielded huge dividends. We are spending very little on healing or sickness these days. Even the kids get rarely sick anymore. Take it from a guy who used to faint from severe migrain headaches: the more you invest in health the less you will spend on healing.
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