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    Posted: Jun 26 2009 at 8:25am
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Op-Ed Contributor: Shifting America from sick care to genuine wellness

 

Washington, DC — With the Senate health committee convening daily to craft a comprehensive health reform bill, the basic outline of this landmark legislation is now clear. 

Yes, it will ensure access to affordable, quality care for every American.  But, just as important, it will hold down health care costs by creating a sharp new emphasis on disease prevention and public health.

As the lead Senator in drafting the Prevention and Public Health section of the bill, I view this legislation as our opportunity to recreate America as a genuine wellness society – a society that is focused on prevention, good nutrition, fitness, and public health.

The fact is, we currently do not have a health care system in the United States; we have a sick care system.  If you’re sick, you get care, whether through insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, community health centers, emergency rooms, or charity.  The problem is that this is all about patching things up after people develop serious illnesses and chronic conditions.

We spend a staggering $2.3 trillion annually on health care – 16.5 percent of our GDP and far more than any other country spends on health care – yet the World Health Organization ranks U.S. health care only 37th among nations, on par with Serbia.

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as European countries, but we are twice as sick with chronic disease.

How can this be so?  The problem is that we have systematically neglected wellness and disease prevention.  Currently in the United States, 95 percent of every health care dollar is spent on treating illnesses and conditions after they occur.  But we spend peanuts on prevention. 

The good news in these dismal statistics is that, by reforming our system and focusing on fighting and preventing chronic disease, we have a huge opportunity.  We can not only save hundreds of billions of dollars; we can also dramatically improve the health of the American people.

Consider this:  Right now, some 75 percent of health care costs are accounted for by heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity.  What these five diseases and conditions have in common is that they are largely preventable and even reversible by changes in nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle.

Listen to what Dr. Dean Ornish told our Senate health committee: “Studies have shown that changing lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease.  Thus, the disease that accounts for more premature deaths and costs Americans more than any other illness is almost completely preventable, and even reversible, simply by changing lifestyle.”

It’s not enough to talk about how to extend insurance coverage and how to pay for health care – as important as those things are.  It makes no sense just to figure out a better way to pay the bills for a system that is dysfunctional, ineffective, and broken.  We also have to change the health care system itself, beginning with a sharp new emphasis on prevention and public health.

We also have to realize that wellness and prevention must be truly comprehensive.  It is not only about what goes on in a doctor’s office.  It encompasses workplace wellness programs, community-wide wellness programs, building bike paths and walking trails, getting junk food out of our schools, making school breakfasts and lunches more nutritious, increasing the amount of physical activity our children get, and so much more.

I am heartened by the fact that the major players in this endeavor – Democrats and Republicans alike – all “get it” when it comes to prevention and public health.  We all agree that it must be at the heart of reform legislation. 

As President Obama said in his speech to Congress earlier this year: “[It is time] to make the largest investment ever in preventive care, because that's one of the best ways to keep our people healthy and our costs under control.”

No question, comprehensive health reform is an extraordinarily ambitious undertaking.  But what makes me optimistic is that all the major groups are playing a constructive role, including those that opposed the 1993-94 heath reform effort.  Everyone agrees that the current system is broken.

Winston Churchill famously said that “Americans always do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”  Well, we’ve tried everything else, and it has led us to bad health and the brink of bankruptcy.

Comprehensive health reform legislation is our opportunity to change the paradigm.  We are going to extend health insurance to every American.  And we are going to give our citizens access to a 21st century health care system – one that is focused on helping us to live healthy, active, happy lives.

 

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and chairs the Senate panel that funds medical research and health care..

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Question, just what kinds of diseases can a Chiropractor prevent that are so costly these days?  Can you prevent Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer, Alzheimer's, Kidney disease, etc.?
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Originally posted by Pacman Pacman wrote:

Question, just what kinds of diseases can a Chiropractor prevent that are so costly these days?  Can you prevent Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer, Alzheimer's, Kidney disease, etc.?
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Wanna bet that he will be willing to SELL us some stuff that he CLAIMS will be able to prevent all of that stuff???  Big%20smile
 
Actually, I am more concerned about about Senator Harkin's statement that:  "And we are going to give our citizens access to a 21st century health care system – one that is focused on helping us to live healthy, active, happy lives."
 
In the first place, they will not be (and can never be) "GIVING" us ANYTHING!!!
 They can only TAKE money FROM those of us that pay taxes; use about 40% for overhead, administration, and bureaucracy; and then distribute the remaining 60% (less what they manage to skim off the top) back to us in the form of FORCING things upon us that THEY think will make US "happy"--with most going to those who did NOT pay any tax in the first place!!! 
 
I might also offer a wager that the VERY FIRST thing that our illustrious congress will do is to EXEMPT THEMSELVES from the dandy health care that they plan to FORCE on us!!
 
There is no way that I can live a more "active" life, so I guess that I will be dis-allowed any cardiac care under the new plan.  I also wonder if folks like Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank, Gerald Nadler, and President Barack "Smokey" Obama will be forced...oops...I mean helped to live healthy, active lives???
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Yeah those is Canada and the UK are so happy with their health care as they wait in line and die before they can even get the basics of care.
 
Lets see you are 75 and need a triple bypass sorry you are to old go away.
 
 
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They have a comprehensive plan,things are looking good ! I for one look forward to the double standard of care that will be provided to us at a minimal cost. Someone in Washington is doing a heckuva job and I appreciate it and look forward to it. No one could have anticipated the rise in health care cost,but they have a comprehensive plan. There are evil-doers out there that would do us harm by charging huge sums for health care,but we have a comprehensive plan to provide every american with over-priced health care.
No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !!
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Chiropractors allow the nervous system to function as best it can within an individual by correcting vertebral subluxations along the spine.  That God-given power enables each of us to live to our full potential, not with sickness and disease.
 
Check out www.HylandFamilyChiro.com for more info or better yet call 513.360.2930 to schedule a no risk, no obligation consultation at the office.  Take control of your health and be preventative about it rather than reacting to a symptom!
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Originally posted by DrBrian DrBrian wrote:

Chiropractors allow the nervous system to function as best it can within an individual by correcting vertebral subluxations along the spine.  That God-given power enables each of us to live to our full potential, not with sickness and disease.
 
Check out www.HylandFamilyChiro.com for more info or better yet call 513.360.2930 to schedule a no risk, no obligation consultation at the office.  Take control of your health and be preventative about it rather than reacting to a symptom!


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