I’m sure there’s a lot of variance in how it feels to be someone willing to spend on healthcare but less willing to change their daily habits and activities. For me, “free” is misleading. It’s a whole lot more effort and reduced joy for some interventions. That’s the opposite of free, it’s prohibitively costly, or seems like it.
There’s also a bit of inverse-locus-of-control. If my choices cause it, it’s my fault. If a doctor or medication helps, that means it was externally imposed, not my fault.
And finally, it hits up against human learning mechanisms—we notice contrasts and rapid changes, such as when a chiropractor does an adjustment or when a medication is prescribed. We don’t notice gradual changes (positive or negative), and our minds don’t make the correlation to our behaviors.
I’m sure there’s a lot of variance in how it feels to be someone willing to spend on healthcare but less willing to change their daily habits and activities. For me, “free” is misleading. It’s a whole lot more effort and reduced joy for some interventions. That’s the opposite of free, it’s prohibitively costly, or seems like it.
There’s also a bit of inverse-locus-of-control. If my choices cause it, it’s my fault. If a doctor or medication helps, that means it was externally imposed, not my fault.
And finally, it hits up against human learning mechanisms—we notice contrasts and rapid changes, such as when a chiropractor does an adjustment or when a medication is prescribed. We don’t notice gradual changes (positive or negative), and our minds don’t make the correlation to our behaviors.