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The Final LinkedIn Post From Brian Thompson Received Some Backlash From Insurance Policy Holders
7 Dec 2024 5:36 pm
Obesity among Baby Boomer kids was pretty rare.,,and almost nonexistent when our parents were young.Cannonpointer » 07 Dec 2024, 6:16 pm » wrote: ↑ You are asking more than two questions right here - or shall I say, acting on more than two buried (and incorrect) premises.
Let's start with obesity. Obesity is not from over eating. It's from overeating the wrong foods - processed **** that is literally designed to cause obesity. Now, is the medical system implicated in this? You bet. Has it occurred to you to ask what system SHOULD be responsible for Americans' nutrition, if NOT our medical system? Should it be the Department of Transportation? Housing and Urban Development? The Treasury? I don't think so. I think our medical system is failing us. It's not failing share holders. Just the American people.
I do not believe it is a big ask to expect a doctor to know a thing or two about nutrition. Let me ask you this: Do you think doctors have a duty to know what things are poison, and to warn their patients against those things? Because if doctors DO have such a duty, ours are failing, and obesity is only one of a great many social maladies and traumas resulting. We live in a toxic food paradigm, and if that is not the MEDICAL system's job to correct, whose job is it?
As to "botched surgeries," here you make the common mistake that many Americans do. There are so many questions to unpack, and I'm not going to get too deep into it, but I will just say a few things:
1. Any unnecessary surgery is a botched surgery, whatever the outcome;
2. Surgery is extremely invasive, and is a last resort AFTER the medical system has already failed the patient;
3. Being good at surgery - and we are - is, like most other things, a function of practice. If we did a better job with health, we'd have less practice. So bragging that your system is good at surgery is sort of like bragging that you clot well when you cut yourself.
A medical system that is outside the financial reach of 90% of Americans (including the insured), that treats emergencies well but non-emergencies not at all unless you are quite wealthy, and that fails in its duties to warn its patients against clear and present dangers to their health, is not worth defending. Countries with witch doctors are just as respectable and civilized.
Our childhood obesity rate increased once video games came out in 1980.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the national JFK Physical Fitness testing in public schools was scrapped shortly after.
By now most of the streets and playgrounds that my generation played at after school and on the weekends were empty.
This is the root cause,,not because our Doctors have failed to tell us that watching our weight and getting 30 minutes of vigorous exercise daily will help "keep the doctor away".