Carelessness or Health Care?
What is our state of mind in reforming health care today? Crazy first comes to my mind in how we address the symptoms instead of the problem of today’s health crisis. Health carelessness and mismanagement can be corrected only if we fully embrace wellness, prevention and wise care. Presently our economy totals 15 trillion dollars. U.S. total healthcare expenditure is $2.7 trillion or 18 percent of GDP. It is forecasted to reach 34 percent of GDP by 2040. In 2010 Americans spent $1.3 trillion on health care. Multiple chronic illness cases that make of just one percent of care consume 21 percent of this total amount. While the last 50 percent of patients account for the 2.8 percent of spending last year. Contrary to popular opinion only 10 percent of health care dollars are spent in the last year of life. While increased money is spent in last few months approaching death it is not the massive percentage of medical care dollars that is w...