Posts Tagged ‘sick care’

The healthcare crisis is different this time.  We are navigating the unknown, and not quite sure how to stay afloat.  About 50% of the population in America will be over 65 by the year 2025, and they may need care.  Here in the United States by middle age people begin to experience many health conditions including; heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, obesity, arthritis, cancer, and cognitive decline.  Once health challenges set in it creates a drain on the nation’s  productivity, and finances.

This nation suffers right now from both a financial and health crisis. With higher costs for healthcare and the looming risks of pandemics, we are pushing the limits. Aging is inevitable; we have to be prepared for the massive costs involved.  All the poor dietary, lifestyle choices catch up with us, sooner or later.  Right now the nation’s nursing homes are in a financial bind.  Suffering from both the recession and the federal and stares government spending cuts, workers can be laid off, services cut, and closing can occur.  Medicare will be cutting about $16 billion in nursing home funding in the next 10 years.

There will be more billions slashed from Medicare funding as healthcare reform tries to manage the bottom line.  The outlook is bleak for those that depend on these services.  This is coming about while the baby boomers are aging.  It is a generation that said they are health conscious, yet they already are taking a toll on the healthcare system.  The population that is most vulnerable are the people who are elderly, disabled, and on a low income.   For a lot of people it is now getting easier to fit that description.  Aging gracefully in America is becoming harder.  Also, the high unemployment rates means more people need  financial assistance.  

While all this is happening Medicaid has cut its reimbursement rates.  The long term care system of this country is at risk.  Hours of trained healthcare personal are being cut.  Nursing homes are closing, even those that look for financial help from private sources.  Take note, and know the odds of getting good care for chronic conditions that occur with age.  Our healthcare system is heading south, and we are turning a corner.  What is ahead of us depends on personal responsibility, as much as our governments’ ability to budget the nation’s resources. 

The healthcare crisis is going to loom over the landscape for years to come. The only answer for relief is if American’s take charge of their health.  The only tool we have at our disposal is our own private health initiative.  We have to learn to take care of our own health to keep the costs down, and boost our defensives against age related diseases, and possible epidemics.  There is no debate, this is not tough to do, and it is the one option we have control over.  We can change our diet, and basically change our life.  Cultures with better dietary practices have better health.  We can move and use our muscles, stay toned and restore vitality. Prevention is key, but when healing is required look to natural methods first.  Our medical system seems to cause more harm than good, do not become dependent on quick fixes. The answer lies in your cupboard, not in a prescription.  You are at the helm, take charge and deliver the best life possible, by adhering to a healthy lifestyle.

Healthcare is blurring boundaries between health, wellness, sickness, and disabilities, and American’s are currently accepting this as a way of life.  It comes out of the growth of drugs/pharmaceutical perceived benefits. The shortcoming of our healthcare system is sick care has become the norm.  Pharmaceuticals now equal health benefits.  Health is defined as having good healthcare, passing a physical, and taking all the drugs to keep all your conditions under control.

Health management is left in the hands of a sick care industry.  Medicine is branching out.  They are now in the businesses of growing longer eyelashes, fixing dry eyes, super charging sexual desire and performance, seeing that you get good nights sleep, and keeping a check on anxiety. For your children they make sure they learn in school, do not disrupt, are paying attention, and are not anxious.  They now have a name for everything addiction, from gambling, computer games, sex, eating, and medication.

Expanding the healthcare industry into a drug dispensing machine, with something oral or topical for what ails you. Patented relief has never been more profitable.  Fast acting bioavailability, with patents and numerous clinical studies, safe except for rare exceptions, can interact with other medication.  The circumstantial evidence of harm that exists for the product will not hit the fan for a couple of years.  Meanwhile it should be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle.  The beneficial effects of long lashes, less pimples, better sex, a good nights sleep, and no anxiety is worth deranged intestine function, liver problems, and diminished kidney function. The stunning announcement that this may not be right for everyone means everyone else, not you.

Part of the environment in America is that everything in nature has added benefits if it comes out of a bottle or package.  The performance of a product is based on an ingredient list that may not be understandable. Today’s pharmaceutical  companies  are developing  new products that address every aspect of a person’s life.  The undeniable appeal to all this is that there is a dispensing machine that is delivering answers to all health inconveniences.

The pharmaceutical industry has one of the most generous sampling campaigns, working with your health care provider; they make it possible for you to get hooked on your trial supply.  All you have to do is ask your doctor for a sample, and tell him the television sent you.

Tracking customers through samples, is their way of seeing that popular drugs make there way into your home.  Label claims, and overall problems of the product understandably are not featured, because the primary focus is healing and recovery.  Limited research into long term use should not concern you.  They know you want immediate relief; consumers do not want to grapple with the future popping up in their thoughts.  The circumstantial evidence of the beneficial effects is enough to reduce levels of anxiety, even when the study reported people were trying to capitalize on the fact that body’s immune system was failing.  In defense of the pharmaceutical industry the results was what they anticipated.  Healthcare is blurring boundaries, because of the pharmaceutical industry touting convenience and immediate results, which appeals to the American public.