So, poverty causes poor health and especially childhood poverty. The quest to the ER patient of, "Are you hungry" should have been one of the first 5 that the doctor asked. Another should have been, "When was the last time you ate?". You need to know these things for diagnosis just as much as blood tests. The really sad thing is we were told to do all of these things to ensure healthy lives by Greek and Roman doctors and even several major religious figures over 2000 years ago. We haven't had the means to do so until modern times, but we do and it is a simple thing to solve now. We just need the will.
absolutely correct, just like those who lacking insurance or low-income families have to choose to pay their rent or utilities instead of their insulin, and they rationing their insulin. and dying because of it .
You can live as healthily as you can, it wont eliminate the risk of getting cancer. Without a decent and affordable healthcare system that covers part of the costs, the price of the treatment can and will ruin the life of almost any working family. So it great that you agree on not having to be hungry and all, but... you know where I’m getting to.
Exceptionally presented by a passionate person. Her efforts are proactive. Where are the results? Her drop in the bucket will help in combination with other initiatives yet it appears a revolution is necessary.
"Are you hungry?!" reminds me of medical practice days when most of us were trying to impress our professors trying to come up with most exotic diagnosis...
*Dr. House enters the room biting into a sandwich* House: "Gosh this is good. But you wouldn't know anything about that would you?" Thirteen: "What are you talking about?" House: "Lupus is not the issue. 'Pastrami' is the issue... he hasn't eaten in weeks."
The health of a nation is vital to its sustaining success; without it, people will revolt and protest at national sites. So why does is appear that the U.S. Government is not taking the subject seriously? Watching the video, I remembered one of the topics covered in my Macroeconomics class: unlimited wants with limited resources. People constantly bash the government for not funding everything that is potent in their lives, but they choose to ignore that there are limited funds. It is quite true that the government does not allot the funds in the best possible way but do a better job than most of the population could ever do. I disagree with Rebecca Onie because the issue is not as simple as she puts it. One of the topics Rebecca Onie touched on during her speech was affordable housing. The Federal Government actually spends over $200 billion each year, about a fifth of what they spend on healthcare, to help build low rent apartments and fund projects similar to Habitat for Humanities. If we divided that number by the number of documented Americans living near or in poverty (about a third of the population), that amounts to about $2000 per year for each person just on housing. If we factor in that low-cost rental apartments cost about $500 per month, the government is essentially giving the people free four months of rent. If the people cannot find a way to pay the other eight months (adding up to about $4,000 per year and about $333 per month) they are doing something terribly wrong. For anything to change in this day and age, you have to take initiative and not depend on the government to fund your project. As Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror song lyric’s succinctly stated, “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.” At the end of the video, Rebecca Onie challenged doctors watching to ask their patients if they were hungry or needed housing. This would be something that can happen without any money changing hands. However, if the patient says they need housing, what can you as a doctor or other medical professional do? You could give the patient money to pay for rent but what is stopping the patient from going out and spending the money as he wishes. Because of human greed, people without illnesses will start coming to the hospitals and claiming that they need housing. Not only will this increase the wait time in the medical facilities, the doctors’ time will be wasted with those people. This substantiates my claim that what Rebecca Onie is proposing is not as simple as she makes it out to be.
While I understand and absolutely agree with the direction that healthcare needs to take in terms of a focus on healthy communities, I worry about the many illnesses that still need to be treated- genetic ones, cancers, and so forth. It's a great preventative measure, but I worry that the people fundamentally impacted by unavoidable or already existing health issues are being forgotten.
No other industrial democracy (60+ of them) has this problem. America is the only one. Over a third of all healthcare costs go to administrative salaries and don't benefit patients, nurses, or doctors in anyway. Take the profit out of healthcare and let doctors do their job.
It is difficult to imagine working in that system. It must be so frustrating not being able to give one patient what he needs because he couldn't afford it, but the guy in the next bed can have everything because he has the money
I'm sorry I'm out of the topic of the video but i need someone to practice with him English if it's possible I'm morrocan just talking about different subject and culture to improve my language
Lies, no matter how good you eat and live if you breath polluted air it will not matter or drink polluted water. Everything it's important, equally important.
nick cerasi People need to see that there are more important things than the amount of money something costs. There are people dying in our first world country of hunger. Our education is 14th in the world. People like Nationalist need to understand that the reason we worry about the money that is spent is for the sake of our citizen’s quality of life. And you can’t ignore the fact that our concentration on economic success has blinded us to the true goal of actually improving the well being of America as a whole not just the people to can afford to survive.
The problem is the Republucans keep voting against decent living wages... Edited to add: and housing regulations, and welfare, and childcare initiatives, and literally anything that would actually improve quality of life. Not to mention voting against decent healthcare too.
Fiona in such a (non binary) system "divide and conquer" wouldn't work, so it's no part of the set menu You're fed by Your political -leaders- sellouts.
I am pretty happy with my 5+ party democracy, 9 of which are currently elected into state Parliaments, while 5 are in the national Parliament (not doing what I want but way closer than if it were between 3 partys and way more than what the 60 isch pays in the European or Weimar parliaments could have done).
You cannot tell about a person's health just by looking at them Being fat is not always unhealthy. Just like being thin is not always healthy. You can be fat and healthy if you maintain your diet and exercise regularly.
Knight Slasher Burgers and fries won’t make you unhealthy. You would do that to yourself if you eat that stuff everyday lol Eating that stuff once a week or whatever you can handle won’t make you unhealthy.
A vote for the leader of the party is not a vote for the morals to which you live by, only the vote of the view taken by the majority, or more accuratley the vote of the 'elite' above the democratic opinion.
You could drop off a bunch of people from the 19th century in the middle of nothing and they would survive very well thank you very much. You drop modern people in the middle of everything and they cannot figure out that brushing your teeth and eating healthy is a good thing? Stick a fork in that one.
So true. Watching this talk, I kept wondering where are the funds for this going to come from. All she kept saying was that the government needs to pay for it. The government already spends over 200 billion per year on affordable housing alone. That comes out to be $2000 per person in poverty in America per year. The average low-income apartment rent per month is $500 so if a family of 3 lives in there, then the government is literally paying for your fucking rent. If you cannot get enough money to pay for food (which the government somewhat already pays for with SNAP) then you are a lazy "I want everything handed to me' type of person and I don't care if you waste away.
"We know exactly what creates health". And yet people demand the government to provide medications and surgery. Americans refuse to work as a community without big daddy government. Everyone knows what to do but Americans don't exercise and eat crappy food... It's too hard. It's not true that healthy food is way more expensive, you just need to try. Politicians are too busy trying to control you to actually pass meaningful legislative changes.
Ssshhh, You should only think about this question, let alone finding answers, when You're fully prepared to be called "commie" or "socialist" from the non-thinkers surrounding You ....
