Health care in our country costs more now than it ever has, and it's not because of the government's inability to provide affordable care. Two factors play a large role in our culture's obsession with the medical establishment, which in turn prevents premiums from falling:
1.) We want to live as long as possible, even if it means spending thousands of dollars on surgery that will only prolong our lives for a few weeks. We have an overblown sense that a miracle will happen to us if we spend a lot of money trying to make it happen.
2.) We are gullible of the medical establishment's maxim that medications must be taken whenever necessary to relieve any symptoms of pain, even if they are psychological.
The great irony of this is how we are so obsessed with recovering from health problems, yet still manage to be one of the most obese and psychologically damaged countries on Earth. We believe that life is so sacred that it's worth saving at any cost, yet we constantly corrupt our bodies with drugs, junk food, anxiety, and sedentary lifestyles that lead to depression. Perhaps if we focused more on natural ways to becoming healthy instead of artificial ones, health care premiums would be more reasonable. It isn't fair to the people who have worked hard their whole lives to maintain a healthy body that they should have to pay the same market rates as people who don't take care of themselves.
We are inadvertently promoting unhealthy lifestyles with this lazy philosophy on what it means to achieve healthy living. It's not done through medical intervention or government bailouts; it's done through self-discipline.
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