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Tumbulu

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6. do you think that it is the high profit margins
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 11:40 AM
Mar 2012

required by private investors that make the health care costs so high?

I know doctors making less than minimum wage (when they add up all the time it actually takes to fill out all the paperwork when they get home after seeing patients all day) , nurses in a similar boats...it seems that the people who actually are the health care providers are exploited by the fact that they care and want to help.....

I have read your posts here and in some other groups and from them I have learned something about what the lab workers deal with being overworked and underpaid.

If hospitals and clinics were publicly owned would it be better? Or is this something more massive.....

My take is that the inferior food produced by profit driven corporations have provided a staple diet that is rich in cheap calories and poor in nutrient content and vitality. This diet produces people who are prone to all these ailments for which there really are no good fixes. That all the medicines in the world cannot cure.....and so it is a matter of time before their bodies succumb to one of the many chronic illnesses, not if, but when.....and then it becomes the responsibility of the health care system to fix the problem when the problem was created by the agricultural system......and has to be solved by the agricultural system...and these two worlds are not connected.

It comes back to really healthy food and healthy habits for everyone, not just the few in the know (ie those of us who have worked in ag and see what is behind the curtain).




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