Health Care Myth

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One of the greatest myths when it comes to Health care is that when people equate it to Medical Care. Since when is Medical Care the only means of maintaining health? In fact, Medicine only looks at health in passing. There is some talk about prevention in medicine, but mostly it reacts to signs and symptoms of failed health. If you go see your doctor and you show no signs or symptoms of known diseases, disorders or trauma, he or she give you a clean bill of health and sends you on your way. But are you healthy? Are you getting enough sleep and exercise? Are you eating right and getting enough water? Does your doctor even know what eating right or getting enough water means? Once you are in ill health, can your doctor diagnose the problem and put you on the proper medicines to return you to health? Do the medicines return you to good health or merely reduce the signs and syptoms to the point that you can function again? Health Care has come to mean nothing more than the ability to meet almost arbitrary numbers. What does it mean to be obese? The number of pounds overweight keeps changing. What does it mean to "eat right", the "proper diet" changes more often than the magic number of obesity. How much water is "enough", did you know that when you feel hungry, it often means you are thirsty, but you have come to interpret all stomach growls as hunger? The fact is, medical professionals don't know what "health" really is. In fact, no one really does. It is something we have been taught to attain, but never really can. Now we have politicians who want to guarantee "health care" to everyone... when all they really mean is they want the tax payers to pay for medical care, but no other form of health care available.