WE SHOULD MOVE TOWARD HEALTH CARE- NOT DISEASE MANAGEMENT

In China, during the Sung dynasty, there were good physicians, average physicians, and bad physicians. You could tell the bad physicians. They always had lots of patients that were sick. The average physician had a few sick patients, but the good or superior physician cared for healthy people.

By that criteria, most doctors in the American system, would be in the inferior class, because, they have waiting rooms full of sick patients.

The term "health care" is thrown around, but there really is NO "health care". If you show up to most doctor's offices, and proclaim you are in good health and want "health care", they will have little to offer you.

The system, as it exists, is predicated on disease management, and as such, is some of the most expensive medical care in the world.

The World Health Organization, a few years ago, rated the health care in the United States poorly, below many smaller and poorer nations, because of this lack of good health care, the system being slanted toward someone is very sick, and indeed, most of the dollars spent on the elderly and very ill, is spent in the last month or months of life.

Prevention based care is not only cost efficient, but makes sense.

It is as practical as the notion of keeping the fences well repaired to keep the horses in, rather than spending more time and effort to find and return the horses once they are out.

It appears the dentists and dental medicine, has gotten the idea of prevention care over to people much better than allopathic care .