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Making $ and Sense of The Health Care Debate

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Finally! People are talking about how we care for our health and not just how we pay for disease management.   

Here's what Dean Ornish said on Larry King Live the other night, "The real issue is that the problem with health reform is that it's focusing way too much on who's covered...  but not enough on what's covered... if we just do more bypass surgery and angioplasty and drugs and so on, on 48 million more people, then costs go up exponentially. That's when we have these painful choices like rationing, raising taxes, letting the deficit go up.

But what we have found in our studies is that lifestyle cannot only be prevention, it can be treatment. Three quarters of the 2.1 trillion dollars in health care costs are really sick cares costs. It goes for four diseases: heart disease, diabetes, prostate and breast cancer and obesity, all of which we found not only can be prevented, but even reversed by changing lifestyle at a fraction of the cost."

HMR has been in the business of treating obesity for more than 25 years.  We know lifestyle intervention works and we have published results to back it up. 

So, we can continue to argue about who should provide what for us and how to pay for it, or we can stop treating the symptoms and focus on the cure.  We can change the way we eat and we can find ways to move more.  We could stop arguing over what someone else should do for us and and start asking what we can do for ourselves.

Why put your health in the hands of democrats or republicans when your lifestyle choices are not theirs to make?  Take a walk while you are calling your congressman because your health care, ultimately, is up to you.