re: #295 ralphieboy

Catastrophic care looks like a good option on the surface, but a lot of our health care costs come from the fact that we place so little value on preventiative care…that is where the whole for-profit approach breaks down because the savings occur so far down the line that they do not show up in any sort of annual balance sheet.

Preventative care or wellness care is great. Not that the government wants to pay that either.

Even so, my mother was a health nut her whole life. Watched her weight, was active, didn’t smoke or drink. She had two catastrophic health incidents that could have killed her having nothing to do with how she took care of herself. It’s simply biology.