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posted by Ronald on Dec 17

There are several growing expenses and situations that can be traced to creating America’s Health Care Crisis.  These include:

• Hospital Care - Hospital care accounts for the largest percent of health care spending accounting for one-third of the national health care costs.  Experts that track health care spending have found that it is NOT unusual for the same services to increase 25-30% in one year!
• More People Are Getting Sick - According to a report from the American Hospital Association, the most important source of hospital costs was due to volume - more people using more hospital services means equipment wears out, shortages of rooms leading to construction, and staffing shortages leading to increasing overtime and higher salaries to keep current staff working.
• Physician and Clinical Service Costs make up 22% of our total health care costs.  Since more people are sick and similar to the increase in construction and staffing limitation, costs for physician and clinical services are increasing rapidly every year.
• Prescription Drugs - Americans comprise only five percent of the entire world’s population yet we consume ONE-HALF OF ALL the prescription drugs manufactured WORLD WIDE!  That is more than 3 billion prescriptions each year.  Prescription drug expenses are the fastest growing health care costs increasing by more than 15% each year since 1998.

The pharmaceutical industry has done a great job at convincing people that drugs are intended to cure disease.  But if prescription drugs were the answer to health, why aren’t we the healthiest nation on Earth?  In spite of all the drugs, the physicians, and the hospitals, Americans are getting heavier; the rate of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are rising; and we have one of the highest infant death rates in the world.

We need to transition from our over-reliance on drugs and believing that taking a pill is the ’solution’ to finding and treating what caused the disease in the first place.  It is certainly fair to say that traditional medicine can do amazing things - especially in treating trauma and infectious disease.  But for promoting health, traditional medicine is ineffective and extraordinarily expensive. 

I and many others in the wellness industry work very hard spreading the word that it is much better (and cheaper!) to prevent disease than to treat it after it occurs.  Preventing disease and fighting the effects of aging are two of the primary reasons why many people take supplements and how they become proactive about improving their health.  By putting yourself into a state of optimal health, you feel better, have more energy, and increase the quality of your life.