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While health care reform can never be an overstated subject, amid implications of progress and benefit directed to all Americans, any reform must first address the need for preventative care and healthy environmental concerns; from doctors offices to home offices; from workplaces to living spaces.

There is a lamentable dearth of, truly indefatigable, healthy and dietary advice coming from the medical and pharmaceutical industries these days, and at times it is not so difficult to assume that much of the dietary obfuscation and medicinal misinformation predominantly being opted for, is not somewhat of a misdiagnosed measure of incompetence, darkly aimed at creating some deniable level of job security within the health care community.

It would seem prudent, that if the government in this nation actually intends on taking such a demonstrably parental role in the health care industry, then they must first engender programs which seek to place a large portion of the responsibility for American’s overall health, squarely on those who will be receiving the bulk of the benefits…the patients. While at the same time, giving them every opportunity to succeed in this personally responsible effort.

Moreover, to accomplish this, the plan should also insist that those who are reaping the most revenues from these patients; the alcohol, tobacco, food, drug, and service industries, be required to conform to healthy standards, and in effect help to educate consumers in this nation on just what are, and are not, healthy habits. Rather than employing the current market schemes which intend to take full advantage of every human frailty and desire they can possibly exploit without overtly breaking the law, or causing excessive consternation in the consumers they incessantly attempt to defraud and poison for profit, with their egregiously deceptive tactics.

While it may be true that there are many people who simply “break” themselves in accidents and unavoidable catastrophes, or find themselves ill by no fault of their own, these are not what run up the delirious costs associated with health care in this nation. It is the millions of patients who are terminally ill with diseases such as smoking-induced-lung-cancer or organ failure while being convinced to avoid taking responsibility for their health, or the critically obese who are taught to excuse away their self-inflicted debilitation, or the excessively-medicated-guinea-pigs (patients of doctors prescribing for gains from Big Pharma, rather than educating clients on living healthier), which break the bank for those typically healthy individuals who rarely visit a doctor, but still need medical insurance to cover any unforeseen injuries or illnesses.

On top of this, the concerns of employers who cause work related injuries, and slow poisonous deaths, contribute to the current medical crisis in this nation as well. Because many of those who are negligent, with respect to safe work places and practices, typically spend great sums of money to injure their victims even further by hiring high priced, “hit men”, lawyers to avoid their obvious liability for these peoples’ medical bills, then forcing the state or federal government to pick up the tab at a substantial discount…which drives costs even higher. This also causes agencies to create and enforce policies or guidelines which attempt to determine what are unnecessary medical practices or procedures (often prohibiting critical tests crucial for proper diagnosis) in efforts to prevent fraud.

Unfortunately the health care associated with old age is also pushing up costs currently, because so many employers are practicing unprecedented levels of misfeasance and outright fraud, with tactics which seek to rob long term, and many times ingratiatingly loyal, employees of their pensions and health care benefits. Far too many of this nation’s elderly are being pushed into the margins, or irreverently abused by nursing homes which defraud insurance companies and government agencies for billions of dollars per year, while practicing what can only be termed as malpractice, with ever increasing levels of neglect and malnutrition brought about by mandated reductions in pay to caregivers.

This nation is suffering from a deadly pulmonary condition in more ways than one, and much of the maladies have little to do with disease or age. It is high time this nation begins to truly take to heart the many constitutional, and morally practical, concerns the founding fathers so honorably and courageously realized and enacted for the people of this beautiful land. Concerns eternally and inalienably decreed when these benevolent leaders wisely convened together in Universal compliance to the dedication of all humanity, and put into written word some of the most endearing and respectable concepts known on this planet. There is not one single act legal which seeks to prevent or purloin the life, liberty nor happiness of another…in any way whatsoever, and the many hugely profitable industries in this nation must be brought into compliance with this concept.