Our models of healthcare (“sick care”), and healthcare payments, have been broken from each of their respective inceptions. Now we know better, but the current systems are just too entrenched in our national gross domestic product (economy)…too lucrative for everyone involved (yes, including most insured patients). As a system tries to improve / change, allContinue reading “My medical profession should stop trying to keep/recreate the past.”
Tag Archives: GDP
Highly processed foods and fructose intake lead to elevated insulin levels and mitochondrial dysfunction, which, in turn, lead to 80% of chronic illnesses in the US.
When I was in college, healthcare costs were 11-12% of gross domestic product. Currently these costs are 18.3% (2021)… remember that healthcare costs inflate and the gross domestic product also keeps growing, but each does not grow at the same rate. There is no way that our current medical technology (drugs, CT scans, MRIs, cardiacContinue reading “Highly processed foods and fructose intake lead to elevated insulin levels and mitochondrial dysfunction, which, in turn, lead to 80% of chronic illnesses in the US.”