personal responsibility for health - patriotism 2.0

  
Great blog post at Jen’s Posterous

 http://hmrx.posterous.com/personal-responsibility-for-health-patriotism

This makes perfect sense to me.  One problem with health care is exactly as Jen describes.  Its easy for us to make poor health-related choices and then expect the heath care industry to solve our problem for us.  It certainly doesn't help that our free-market economy spends billions marketing poor choices to us. And also marketing diets and exercise schemes to help us counteract our bad habits.

Not to ignore the fact that real health care issues certainly arise, but our system could probably work better if we could spend more resources on providing health care remedies (and researching medical solutions) for unavoidable or otherwise tragic diseases and injuries.   Ironically, in a time of economic distress for many, it can turn out that eating better and exercising simply but with consistency, not only saves money in the short-term but can save larger heath care costs in the longer term.