How Do We Stay Healthy When Illness Equals Profit?

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/
Don from https://www.donself.com/

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!

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Love,
Jerry Banfield