Preventative versus Reactive Medicine

Abstract
This blog will provide a reflection of why the government at all levels (Federal, State and Local) has a reluctance in developing a prevention based model within the healthcare system.

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The government will always be reluctant to change when there is not a proven method of positive monetary gain, savings or a combination of the two. We now live in a nation where people are paying to be neglected and left to die all in the idea to show a profit. How long do terminal patients need stay on ventilators and other life sustaining devices to show a profit before they die? Years ago my grandmother was on all those devices and equipment for two weeks before she died even though there was not a positive prognosis from the get go and we requested her to be taken off. I don't believe that I will ever be able to fathom the daily cost that was incurred due to the treatment and in turn how they were billed onto the medical insurance. The insurance agencies gain from the treatments of reactive medicine and the government at all levels gains from the taxes from the profits of both the insurance companies and medical treatment centers. The system is broken when a primary care manager needs to obtain permission before they can order indicated exams or procedures. It took over two years for one of my parents friends to be diagnosed as type two diabetic even though he had been showing signs and symptoms for a very long time. My mother, who is DB II herself, even had him take a fasting glucose reading with her kit that resulted in a reading of over two hundred. The primary way for to this be able to be changed is if there can be a greater fiscal value shown for preventing the conditions before they happen versus collecting after. A secondary idea would be to totally take the profit out of the system in moving to a format like that of socialized medicine on a grand scale at higher levels than Medical/Medicaid like what is seen in Europe, Canada and Japan.

References
Chenoweth, D. (2007). Worksite Health Promotion. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.