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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Are We Undermining Our Own Health?

By Ethan Kalvin

Deaths occur across our country every day due to illness and disease. There are some in this group who might have been saved if they had been insured with a health insurance plan and had earlier intervention. The right to health insurance should not only be a province of the wealthy and/or employed, it should be made available to all citizens.

There are many countries, such as in parts of Africa, the people don't recieve the correct care due to lack of health professionals and medications compared to the USA. This results in many unneeded deaths that could have been prevented.

There is so much medical care in the US that we are casual in regards to our health. Our eating patterns are gradually destroying our bodies. Even as we do this as a wealthy nation, we still don't have the health industry in such a place that people without health insurance can afford to get life preserving medication.

Honestly, we all need to start taking care of ourselves and begin eating and exercising as if we want to live instead of die. Many of the diseases in this country that require medical treatment are diseases like Diabetes, Heart Attack, Stroke, Cancer, and other vascular diseases. All of which by the way come from the lifestyle that we lead. It is not the equivalent of having a society overcome with AIDS or stricken by Swine Flu (H1N1).

What we need to realize is that if we were all doing our part to stay healthy, then we would only need to seek medical treatment for other miscellaneous illnesses and injuries that we sustain, and medical expenses in this country would go way down. We are committing a sort of mass suicide.

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