I think you’re doing a bit of equivocation in the health care makes people healthier statement. When thinking about health care I don’t think “made healthier” is the full extent of what one thinks about the health care infrastructure doing.
The treatments offered to many have little to do with actually making them healthier and more about making their remaining life easier or less painful. Likewise, things like prosthetics are not really making the recipient healthier but do restore a degree of mobility that is increasingly more and more natural.
This is not to say your point about resistance to hearing or investigating in an objective manner to understand the reality of the situation for given treatments is off. I agree with it. However, I think the issues here are rather complex and the argument you’re offering weaker than it could be due to equivocation suggested as the complexities are obscured.
Perhaps then simply the name of the industry is a misnomer if the majority of resources are not spent on improving health but managing existing diseases and ailments. The Disease Management Industry seems to be more accurate, at least in the US.
I think you’re doing a bit of equivocation in the health care makes people healthier statement. When thinking about health care I don’t think “made healthier” is the full extent of what one thinks about the health care infrastructure doing.
The treatments offered to many have little to do with actually making them healthier and more about making their remaining life easier or less painful. Likewise, things like prosthetics are not really making the recipient healthier but do restore a degree of mobility that is increasingly more and more natural.
This is not to say your point about resistance to hearing or investigating in an objective manner to understand the reality of the situation for given treatments is off. I agree with it. However, I think the issues here are rather complex and the argument you’re offering weaker than it could be due to equivocation suggested as the complexities are obscured.
Perhaps then simply the name of the industry is a misnomer if the majority of resources are not spent on improving health but managing existing diseases and ailments. The Disease Management Industry seems to be more accurate, at least in the US.