The Cost of Health
Crisis Health Care is outrageously expensive. It costs over $50,000 a year to
have dialysis (kidney filtering). A coronary bypass exceeds $40,000. A friend of the
family recently had a heart operation that cost $200,000. $20-40,000 for a bowel
surgery. $200-300,000 for organ transplants with 10’s of thousands of dollars per year
every year after (that’s if you can even get one). Then, of course, there is all of the
lost dollars from lost work. But the real expense is not in terms of dollars and cents.
The real cost of lost health is the life that is lost.
How do you put a price on time not spent with your family, on outings and
good times missed because your body refused to let a good time happen? How do
you price upsets and damaged relationships caused from pain induced irritability and
emotion? What about the promotion and advancement in life that never happens
because normal becomes getting through the day rather than giving that little bit extra
that makes the difference? And how do you put a dollar value on incontinence or loss
of libido or wearing a colostomy bag or enduring some other handicap for the rest of
your life? These are the real costs of ill health.
Tragically, the vast majority of crisis health care cases can be avoided. Health
is something that has to be constantly created. When you stop creating your health, it
goes away. The common idea is that you just get or come down with different
conditions. Well, you don’t just get most conditions or diseases. Unless there is a
severe poisoning or accident, there is a gradual deterioration of your health. When
your health has deteriorated far enough, then you get pain and symptoms. In truth,
there is probably more distance from not having pain and symptoms to being healthy
than there is from pain and symptoms to no pain and symptoms. Yet people do what
people do. So long as there is no pain or symptoms one stops putting attention on
their health and it stops being created. Some people don’t change the oil in their car
until it starts clunking or seizing up either.
Your body is actually pretty low maintenance. You have to give it a little bit
of exercise, keep it out of bad environments, give it some good food and get out of its
way so it can repair itself. But you do have to give it maintenance. This is especially
true when we expose it to unnatural environments and feed it unnatural foods. If a
person wants to be healthy and avoid future heartbreak, the intelligent thing to do is to
have regular checkups with Cause Point Correlative Testing, not just when you have
symptoms or pain, but as a regular routine.
I’ll be the first to admit that taking supplements can be tiresome and I know
that it isn’t always easy to arrange a busy schedule for regular appointments. When
you put things in perspective, however, a handful of supplements and a visit every
few months or even every few weeks seems like quite a small investment to make for
a healthy future. Most people take better care of their cars than they do their bodies as
if for some reason their cars are more important.
