aquascoot wrote on Jun 9
th, 2023 at 5:53pm:
the "big pharma- hospital (disease care) " model is a failure... this cant be denied.
Of course it can, evidenced by our
steadily
increasing life expectancy in Australia:
1950=69, 1970=71, 1990=77, 2000=79,
2010-82,
2023=84. (rounded years)
[
United Nations, Revision of World Population Prospects]
aquascoot wrote on Jun 9
th, 2023 at 5:53pm:
life expectancy has stalled and "health span" has been reduced.
Obviously it has not.
aquascoot wrote on Jun 9
th, 2023 at 5:53pm:
in fact, people in the 1950's had 3 years of disability before death and that has blown out to 20 years of disability before death.
Citation please.
aquascoot wrote on Jun 9
th, 2023 at 5:53pm:
but many people in their 50 's and 60's are now living with the consequences of poor health and are visiting specialists, consuming enormously expensive amounts of medications , having enormously expensive treatment, just so they wont "die"
Citation please.
aquascoot wrote on Jun 9
th, 2023 at 5:53pm:
if the car industry ran on this model, you would get a new car and you would never service it, never care about the sort of fuel that went into it, never worry if it had 2 tons of concrete in the tray, never check the oil or the tyre pressure and then when it "got sick" 20 years before it would have , had you taken care of it.
you would have the government pay for a specialist tow truck to take it to a specialist car emergency centre. then highly paid technicians would use very expensive additives to try to keep the clunker going. you would have to keep going back every month to get more expensive components so it doesn't break down, fortunes would be spent rectifying the rust because you never cleaned it. the engine would be torn down and the taxpayer would fund for it to be reassembled.
your car might be put on a waiting list for some procedure, it might only be good for a very short trip to the shops before it blows smoke.
This is a truly illogical, absurd analogy! It's so
silly I'm surprised you've even attempted to draw
a relationship of any sort between motor vehicle
maintenance, and human health and longevity.
...I'm still laughing.
aquascoot wrote on Jun 9
th, 2023 at 5:53pm:
until people come to this realisation, hospitals and big pharma will continue to farm you...
Can I ask you where you'd go to if you broke
your leg, suffered a heart attack or stroke, or
contracted rabies or pneumonia? Presumably
not to a hospital—so tell me, where
would you go?