There is a Dinosaur in the room, with the Elephants and Donkeys.
That is the soon-to-be extinct model used by all of America's health plans, which does nothing to prevent chronic diseases - 85% of all health costs!
The Symptom Diagnosis model of health care worked fine when infectious diseases were the problem, but now poor lifestyle gradually destroys body systems for 20 or 30 years, before symptoms finally appear. It is then too late - the damage is done.
Poor lifestyle consists of only three things:
1. Inactivity.
2. Eating processed, refined, fiberless food.
3. Having chronic stress.
Nowhere in the medical records of 250 million Americans are recorded their level of the causes of 85% of all health problems (and costs) - the lifestyle-related chronic diseases !
What is recorded are only the presence of symptoms: Blood Pressure, Chloresterol, and Weight.
There could be only one result of ignoring 20 or 30 years of ongoing full-body damage, which is that 250 million Americans are depending on health plans that 85% don't work.
Forgetting the ethical implications of selling health plans that are structurally incapable of preventing 85% of all health problems, the financial implication is as follows:
since all the professors and the M.D.'s that they train have full access to data clearly showing
what is happening, along with leaders in government and insurance, this is not financial insanity, but rather financial stupidity.
