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This board might feel that water is dangerous for a thirsty man.
I believe that few of the public experts who weigh in on these matters have any stake in the health of the population. Doctors don't. They generally would like their patients to do well, but they know that this will never dent their business. If some of the big diseases were suddenly easily cured an enormous investment in US medical "care" would be at least partially redundant. The diabetes boom is a case in point. Diabetics are big consumers of drugs, hospitalizations and surgery, and make up a big part of the daily load in a GP's or internist's office practice. A surgeon could almost make a career out of cutting off successive sections of diabetics' appendages. And where did the diabetes boom come from? Well, the timing certainly suggests that government dietary guidelines, promulgated by prominent and influential academic MDs might have had more than a little to do with it. For sure drug companies rarely want to cure anybody, unless the treatment costs at least $20,000 pa and takes a while. What they salivate over is an incurable disease that can be expensively treated with drugs, but given the standard of care will only occasionally be cured.
You know who has a stake in the health of the population? The armed forces do, and large life insurers or life re-insurers. The insurers need to be those without much health insurance or annuity business. Now, these folks do not want you to die!
And they have lots of data, and unlike too much research coming out of medicine, the insurers have a big stake in making the right interpretations of their data.
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I believe that few of the public experts who weigh in on these matters have any stake in the health of the population. Doctors don't. They generally would like their patients to do well, but they know that this will never dent their business. If some of the big diseases were suddenly easily cured an enormous investment in US medical "care" would be at least partially redundant. The diabetes boom is a case in point. Diabetics are big consumers of drugs, hospitalizations and surgery, and make up a big part of the daily load in a GP's or internist's office practice. A surgeon could almost make a career out of cutting off successive sections of diabetics' appendages. And where did the diabetes boom come from? Well, the timing certainly suggests that government dietary guidelines, promulgated by prominent and influential academic MDs might have had more than a little to do with it. For sure drug companies rarely want to cure anybody, unless the treatment costs at least $20,000 pa and takes a while. What they salivate over is an incurable disease that can be expensively treated with drugs, but given the standard of care will only occasionally be cured.
You know who has a stake in the health of the population? The armed forces do, and large life insurers or life re-insurers. The insurers need to be those without much health insurance or annuity business. Now, these folks do not want you to die!
And they have lots of data, and unlike too much research coming out of medicine, the insurers have a big stake in making the right interpretations of their data.
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