Health should be FREE

Imagine that you receive a notice in the mail stating “In order to maintain your freedom of speech, you will be billed $10,000 per year.” You would be—understandably—outraged. Freedom of speech in America is precious, something Americans have fought wars to defend. We view free speech as a basic right, no big check to write in order to maintain it. It should be free and available to everyone regardless of religion, color, political leanings, or income. I believe that same principle should apply to health. Being healthy means living free of common chronic health conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood sugars, acid reflux, migraine headaches, skin rashes, joint pain and hundreds of other health conditions. While such conditions are typically not catastrophic or immediately life-threatening, they are exceptionally common and consume the majority of healthcare dollars. Most money spent in healthcare is not for transplanting hearts or treating cystic fibrosis; it’s spent on much more common, though less dramatic, “diseases of lifestyle.” Think of the $23 billion spent every year on statin cholesterol drugs, or the $20 billion for stomach acid-blocking drugs, or the $11 billion for injectable inflammatory drugs. It is a trillion dollar, $10,000 per American per year burden, growing every year, and is unsustainable, now consuming an unprecedented 17.5% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But there is a little known secret here. As crippling as expanding healt...
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