Many of us struggle with costs now in the aftermath of COVID, supply chain issues, and other causes of increased expenses. But are we focused on the right issues? The gas price locally the last time I filled up was $3.17 a gallon. In other developed countries, the price per gallon is twice that. The price of gas and other commodities is based on global markets and our ability to influence that is limited. If you look at health care prices, other developed countries pay half as much. We spend almost twenty percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care. Other developed countries pay ten percent of GDP on health care and Singapore spends only five percent. That difference in costs is a huge burden for every budget in America from the federal government to the poorest family. GM spends more on health care than it does on steel. Starbucks spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee. That makes cars and coffee more expensive. It makes gas more expensive.
But health care is not like gasoline. Gasoline prices are greatly influenced by countries that are not our friends. Healthcare is local and the best healthcare is the least expensive healthcare. So why are healthcare prices so high? The answer to that is easy too. The US is the only developed country where corporations run healthcare. The priorities for healthcare in our country serve the interests of stockholders in the big five insurance companies. It is just that simple. They make more when healthcare costs more. The closest system to that in the developed world is the German system. Ninety percent of Germans also receive their healthcare insurance through their employer, but in Germany elected representatives from employees and the employer decide what the priorities are for health insurance. They live longer for half the money.
As I wrote in the last couple of posts, we know what needs to be done and I am working with other stakeholders to bring better health at lower costs to your communities soon. In the early going, getting the message out to find like-minded people was the major task. Now that we have found each other, to job shifts to action. We can have the most effective, least expensive healthcare system in the world. We just need to get started.
My site is not a blog although it would be easy to mistake it for one. I have been writing for three years and I have put up 766 posts over that time. Everything I have written is designed to help you understand as an individual how you can be healthier and fully functional longer. It helps you understand how we can move to a healthcare system that serves you better. Once these posts are written, they are still valid, and I have created a body of work that can help you improve your personal health while understanding the path to a better system. That work is largely done now, and you can go back through the material and learn all you need to know. There are extensive links to the sources, and you can learn as much as you care to. That is why I am cutting my posts back to twice a week on Monday and Thursday. That will be less of a burden on you, and I can provide updates that are needed. It will give me more time to work with others to make the vision real. I thank all of you who have supported my work
I appreciate your work. I believe you do it because you care deeply about this, as well as that, as you note, there's a lot we can do in this area. It will be interesting where you go with your work now.
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