The only affordable healthcare insurance…

…is to exercise and eat right. No one can afford remedial healthcare – at any price. At best it will only miserably stretch out your death. I own the federal trademark on the advertising slogan “Exercise and Eat Right.”™ I’ve been in the preventative health business for 30 years. I’m 66 and only see a doctor for my required flight physicals. I wouldn’t go then if I didn’t have to by law.

There are a few things we can do to improve this situation. We could mandate the implementation of sustainable agriculture practices to stop poisoning ourselves. We could ban proven harmful ingredients in prepackaged foods like High Fructose Corn Syrup and Genetically Modified Crops. We could mandate proper nutrition be taught in school. None of these practical solutions are politically feasible however, so it’s up to you to learn what to eat. Food is the new medicine, says Tufts University School of Nutrition but physician training doesn’t even include nutrition. As for exercise, all one has to do is get one’s heart beating fast every day. No end of ways to do that and it takes only one minute.

Physicians are the new priests. People used to pay Physicians of the Soul to relieve their self-induced maladies, or witch doctors. Superstition is still the rule. I think our health would improve dramatically if physicians were restricted to setting broken bones, repairing hernias and gun shot wounds but people have “faith” so most will continue running to the doctor every time they sneeze.  Reminds me of what that great enlightment philosopher Denis Diderot said, “The best physician you can run to is the one you can’t find.”