We trust our healthcare system to help us when we are injured and sick to get us back on our feed. Medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and the armies of support staff do miracle work each day saving lives from fixing broken bones to providing helpful medical advice and treating disease.
At the same time, we live in a capitalistic system where profit equals growth. For our healthcare system, the fast path to profit is chronic illness requiring frequent doctor's visits, expensive treatments, and medications that cost almost nothing to produce while being sold often at a massive profit.
How do we stay healthy when illness is so profitable? What works to interact with our medical system in a way that helps us increase our quality of life without getting funneled into a diagnosis that then starts a cycle of downward health spiraling?
Today I talk with Bonnie from Billing Buddies at http://www.billingbuddies.com/ and Don from https://www.donself.com/ in this video interview uploaded to DTube which we hope will leave you saying "Thank God I saw that!"
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Talking with Bonnie and Don helps me stay centered in remembering our healthcare system is full of good people trying to help alongside the capitalistic goals of growth which sometimes promotes profit at any cost because Bonnie and Don both help doctors maintain profitable businesses. We conclude that education is critical to help us develop and maintain a prevention mindset especially through diet and nutrition which we have control over today instead of thinking our diet has no consequences and that diseases can only be addressed through medical treatment.
Don reminds us that Medicare pays for Annual Wellness visits to our doctor which can help us feel good about our health and identity problems well enough in advance for prevention to work. For doctors, reminding patients of this visit is an opportunity to build a relationship based on prevention, increase referrals, and generate positive reviews online.
I am excited Bonnie and Don are planning to read the book "How Not To Die" by Michael Greger, M.D. as seen at https://nutritionfacts.org/book/ which helped me to lose weight, feel better every day, and believe that eating mostly whole plant foods is preventing the top 15 causes of my death from occurring!
Thank you for experiencing this interview with us! When you would like us to follow up with more discussion on the details of what we talked about here, would you please leave a comment with ideas for our next call because your feedback will help us know how to best serve you in the next video we produce?
Love,
Jerry Banfield
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I often think about this sort of thing because I am fascinated by incentives and how simply changing one's incentives can produce a radical change in behavior. What you've laid out here is a perfect example of incentives being misaligned.
Great post as always @jerrybanfield.
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Also, I think having a positive attitude each day, learning how to "breathe" (we forget sometimes!) thru those super stressful moments, much plant-based diet like you said, healthy supplements (as opposed to meds if you can), yoga/exercise, letting go of anger, prayer and lots of GRATITUDE for every moment and challenge! I also drink at least 1 tsp. of apple cider vinegar a day w/water. I haven't had a cold in a few years!
I agree with you.
One solution regarding changing incentives would be to shift the industry thinking that illness is profitable over to the idea that health is profitable. If we could structure healthcare so that doctors made more money keeping you well, we would see a big improvement.
Agreed @geke especially when we see that health is much more profitable for us as an entire society!
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Exactly. I couldn't agree more. That's the exact way to do it. Shift the incentives.
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I have a friend who works over 60 hours a week.
Loves what he does he runs his own business but the guy drinks heavily every. single. day.
When we try to get him to take it easy he just tells us that in a few years he can just buy a new liver loooool wtf
Thanks for this amazing video, it's really motivating to take more care about our health. We have to stop losing our money to buy this medicaments and stop sopporting the useless medical system that is made just to make profit from people. My wife is vegan and I try to support her by eating just vegan food at home and that helps a lot to stay healthy, she just joined steemit recently and here she will write about veganism in Russia and veganism generally because she is reallly true vegan and she really care about animals a lot. You can read her blog here : @steemitbaby .
She also likes you so much Jerry because she sees that you are vegan also, it makes me love you much more because my dear love also love you, you are doing very well, I wish you the best. ☺
Many health insurance company's provide incentives to the subscribers for taking preventive action. My insurance reimburses for 3 months of gym membership fees! Be sure to check out what benefits your policy provides.
how to stay healthy when illness equals profit? well for me, being healthy is equals more time and money being saved and that will lead to happier and longer life expectancy @jerrybanfield.
good quality post as always..thank you!
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When wealth is lost nothing is lost, health is lost something is lost, but when morality lost, everything is lost.
Health is all that matters! Money can be made back, and only buys temporary things.
Nice post Mr @jerrybanfield
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Only the educated will thrive... and our society crushes education / nuff said
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As someone who also works in this environment, I must say I agree. This system needs to have another approach, one where prevention is the most important matter. Often the doctors are teached how to deal with a person that has a disease, but dedicate little to no time in helping them to avoid that people gets sick. And this has many benefits, from wherever point of view you see it.
It has the obvious benefits for the person who doesn't have to suffer an illness that could deteriorate their quality of life. And we all know that being healthy helps you to be more focused and productive. Also, as you already mentioned, it helps them to save money that in the case of chronic diseases or grave illness, could be a great amount of it. Besides, there are places where the access to medicaments it's very unequal and they have to resort to unusual ways to access to them or when it's very difficult, they don't purchase them at all. And in some cases, this is the reason of why some illness become chronic.
Nonetheless, the Health System could take advantage of this, too. I'm going to give my opinion based in how is it in my country (Venezuela), where at the moment, we're struggling to be able to assist the amount of people that visits the medical centers day by day. If we would focus more in promoting healthy life styles and regular visits to the doctors, the amount of emergencies would be lesser and the way the doctors could take care of them would definitely be more efficient.
It's a win-win situation, even when I'm sure some pharmaceutical companies would not agree with me. Anyway, I believe prevention is the future of medicine.
Thanks for sharing!
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Yeah, illness = profit most likely.
I guess my recommendation to health is as simple as balance.
I guess most people are not aware of this. We only most of the time know/knew the word 'eating'. The word 'fasting' sounds alien to us. A lot of things to search and study on fasting. The popular one maybe not to some is intermittent fasting. I won't go deeper into this. There are a lot more about fasting stuffs to learn from.
Most cultures are already cultured on their scheduled time on eating. Time for breakfast, time for snacks, time for lunch, time for snacks, time for dinner. We are/were becoming slaves of our time. We don't even listen to our body, if its expanding or purging.
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" A food industry slogan?
Even the word 'breakfast' obviously violates the law of fasting. Breakfast means breaking the fast, that's why its called breakfast.
Fasting is traditional, ancient, an old thing. But, in the process, its evolving. There are a lot of varieties to study/learn on fasting.
Anyways, thanks @jerrybanfield for posting up a good health insights.
More power!
I recently had to take a trip to the ER when I did some damage to my knee. They gave me an Ace bandage, an ibuprofen and some xrays. I was charged $3,000. Unfortunately I'm not employed or have insurance so this really hurts. I still need to get an MRI and most likely surgery but can't go forward until I can figure out this financial mess. It shouldn't be this difficult to get help in America. Getting injured is a privilege only for the wealthy in this country.
You spelt "feet" as "feed" @jerrybanfield.
Hi Jerry, this is a very very important topic! People are not incentivised to live healthy! And the healthcare system focuses on short time profits. You might also find Colin T. Campbell interesting:
Keep up your postings to this topic! I have also voted for you as a steem witness.
Cheers!
With all those tips, i will be able to be healthy. Thanks.
nice Jerry Banfield,,,,
Thank God i saw this indeed!
Congratulations @jerrybanfield!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following category:
This is why a NHS type system is inevitable for America. Healthcare does not work as a rational capitalist market place. You need to have a system in place where we all pay together to form a non-profit healthcare sector that values patient health above all. You will never achieve optimal results when the consumers and suppliers of healthcare have vastly different motives.
Very much informative!
Thanks.
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@jerrybanfield
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Stay healthy dude <3
There needs to be another social program to help more people in need. Unfortunately Americans must strive to get more money to cover there butts in case of medical costs. There is benefits of course to the system, it is the most innovative and growing in the world because of the profit capitalist system.
wow !
nice blog
thanks for your good advice.carry on
It's quite sad that medication costs a lot and often causes problems for elderly people with low income in the first place.
Good exercise and sound sleep do help alot. I tried watching the video but my network is bad.i will try to watch it later
posting is very useful for health
Interesting interview...
So in totality which is most profitable?
Health or illness?
@jerrybanfield clarify sir
Better to be healthy. Health is the wealth
-cheers-
Wow! thanks for this costly health tips you brought to our door step free of charge .may God give you more inspiration to affect our life in a new dimension in jesus name
u have a great information bro, thanks for sharing
You may want 2 look at your first sentence "feed" .....
Thanks for the recommendation! Will definitely have to check it out, I want to live long enough to be a whale!!!!
I am a nurse. What I learned in nursing school is different from what I have learned about nutrition from alternative medicine. Now I wish I could tell all my diabetic and obese patients what I have learned. But within the practice of nursing, there’s no place for that kind of advice because doctors aren’t advising it. It’s all about medications. There’s no money in lifestyle changes that cure.
Thank you for sharing us about health...i think this is very useful for everyone.
Well apart from dieting I want to add exercise... Exercise helps a long way to keep the body system in good shape
Americans must strive to get more money to cover there butts in case of medical costs. There is benefits of course to the system, it is the most innovative and growing in the world because of the profit capitalist system.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mehram
we'll stay healthy, as long as we keep common sense!!!!! 😅