📖 Nicole Saphier - Make America Healthy Again
How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis
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Today’s book is:
Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis by Nicole Saphier
If Americans want to know why their health care is so costly and getting costlier, they need only look in the mirror.
Americans are notoriously unhealthy—we eat too much, drink too much, and sit too much. When roughly 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and 40 percent of all cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes, it is time to take a deeper look at the problem and ask who is truly responsible. Consider that:
· After seventy years of innovation, heart disease and cancer remain the top two causes of death in the United States.
· In 1960, health care spending was 5 percent of America's GDP; today, it is 17.5 percent.
· The government spends over $1 trillion annually on health care.
· Nearly one in five American deaths is associated with poor diets.
· Simply reducing sodium intake by 1,200 mg per day could save up to $20 billion a year in medical costs.
In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering physician, nationally recognized patient advocate, and media personality, reveals how individual negligence and big government incompetence have destroyed America’s health care system. Combining historical events, economic trends, and essential lifestyle advice, with her unique perspective, she offers concrete solutions to address this epic problem.
We don’t need socialized medicine—we need to take better care of ourselves. By getting healthier and adopting preventative measures, Saphier believes, we can reduce the astronomical costs of treatment and improve overall care. The only way to lower medical costs for everyone is to stop incentivizing bad health decisions. Policies such as the Affordable Care Act and single-payer plans ignore something crucial to lowering the overall financial burden: personal responsibility. We can no longer expect doctors and the government to fix illnesses we have the power to prevent. Regardless of which health policy is adopted, our nation will flounder unless we take action. It is up to the American people to make America healthy again.
You can buy the book here (Amazon link).
Japan has an average salt intake about a gram a day higher than the US and has a longer life expectancy too. Mineral rich salts have also been associated with better outcomes as well.
MAHA is about fixing the relationship between corporations and our health agencies to produce honest science and get the bad chemicals out of our food. This book sounds like what we have today where the individual is shamed and the corporations are off the hook.
Government spending became a water faucet for money hungry creative capitalists who knew the contract games throughout the many Agencies that has become this enormous monster. Which was unleashed after the assassination of JFK on the 22 Nov 1963. General Smedley Butler's 'War is a Racket' established the preeminent change that was occurring in America on how it distributed its economic productive human capital.