Dear President-Elect Obama,
My BIGGEST concern has always been and still is HealthCare. Simply, the reason being… if you do not have your health in good standing nothing else really matters. Therefore, our system has always been on the wrong side of "Health" Care it should be called "Sick" Care. WE have focused more on the afterthought rather than the forethought and that has been the issue for years and that IS what has gotten us into the trouble we are in now today. The main reason being is, there is not a lot of profit in PREVENTION but a BOATLOAD in curative (and the pharmaceutical, medical & insurance industries), all know this. And so does the FDA I am afraid to say. Ninety percent of the reasons why people flood the medical care system are due to health issues that are completely PREVENTABLE...yet focus and emphasis and reward are not placed on having people pay attention to their own health, it is focused on how do "we" fix the problem after it has already broken (kind of like our economy is today).
We NEED a "HEALTHCARE" policy & system with an EMPHASIS on incentives to get healthy, maintain health and reward those who ARE and DO stay fit and healthy and stay out of the medical care system and not bog it down.
I am a 48 year old health/fitness professional (for 27 years) who has been an advocate of prevention and staying healthy & fit and to lead a life with vitality. The best way to help our broken "Sick Care" system is to stay out of it. Be empowered to take care of your own body because you only have one that your given for a lifetime. No one will care about "your" own body more than YOU.
I have a lot of GREAT ideas to help turn things around and it is NOW that we must begin to change the focus from curative to preventative, if not for me and my generation BUT for my child and the children who are to face this issue in upcoming generations.
Thank you for listening. I would be more than happy to share what I know.
Sincerely,
Laura S. Gideon
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