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All the study is saying is that we’re doing better at keeping fat people with heart disease alive. It’s not saying anything about lowering the rate of heart dis
by FollowingTheDao 3y ago
All the study is saying is that we’re doing better at keeping fat people with heart disease alive. It’s not saying anything about lowering the rate of heart disease.
And I think this is the crime of the medical system. It’s not healthcare, it’s sickcare.
- nervousvarun 3y agoPrivate healthcare is for-profit and directly incentivized by an unhealthy population. Public healthcare is non-profit and directly incentivized by a healthy population. Is this true? Because to my American eyes it has always seemed true. The obesity epidemic seems like a good case study. Private health care looks to prescription drugs to fix it (subscription model) whereas public conceivably would push community awareness campaigns promoting exercise/diet (no profit stream).
- FollowingTheDao 3y agoI have experience this problem in my own healthcare. When I tell the doctors, I want to focus on diet and metabolics and not medication they do not want to help me. So even the doctors are trained to exist in the for-profit system. And I know I’m in the early stages of ankylosing spondylitis yet since I don’t have any bone deformation yet they just don’t care about my pain.