Depoliticizing the Healthcare Debate

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My opinion on this subject is unlikely to be popular with everybody, but as I said before: improving healthcare in this country is going to require compromise. The right kind of compromise now may involve rethinking how to use the assets we have instead of wishing for those we do not yet possess. In the absence of the kind of public funding that could only come from things like reducing our military spending or raising corporate taxes, we may have to refine the way we spend our current healthcare resources. Patients with terminal illnesses who cannot be cured or have their quality of life extended meaningfully may have to relinquish benefits in favor of providing care for those who can be saved with current technology and the proper level of medical attention.

Turning around the state of healthcare in this country is likely to be a long and arduous process, so my advice to you is this: take good care of yourselves and the people close to you. I hate to throw another idiom at you, but it’s a valid one—an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure. Try changing your diet to avoid meat and refined sugars. Incorporate regular exercise into your daily routines. Give up cigarettes. None of these things are likely to be easy or convenient, but they’ll be much less trouble than getting stuck on the wrong end of our country’s current medical system. If enough Americans make these changes, it will do more than simply provide them with a higher quality of life—it will also reduce the expense of running of our medical system, making it easier to provide affordable care for people who really need it.

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Charles Laverty
Charles Laverty is a contributing writer to USA Herald and entrepreneur focused on health along with wellness. Charles passion is writing and has a knack for covering tough stories that other journalists shy away from, including but not limited to the fitness industry's profiteering over fixing the obestity epidemic. Charles Laverty is an advocate for health, wellness, and fitness. He has a knack for calling out government for bad policies, incompetence, and anti-democratic actions.