Al Capp put it out there; what’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA. The pharmaceutical, insurance, and “health care” industries are “for profit” and Congress has guaranteed them excessive profits, they’re today’s “General Bullmoose”. And they feed us what the bull leaves behind.
One of my uncles died at 62 and my grandfather at 69. They were both white males with enough money to afford any health care that money could buy.The average life span of a Frenchman is the highest in the world; 6 years more the American male.
Not much to do with medecine, but eating habits and diet.
And, it is said, that two glasses of red wine a day will increase one’s life span………“No, twclix, put that case of wine away, I said two glasses, not a bottle!”……hee, hee.
If one is the sort that wants to minimize their children’s interactions with the medical system, and considering the medical system overall who doesn’t, then one WILL get their children immunized COMPLETELY and ON SCHEDULE! It’s a matter of relative risk, and the human inability to assess that risk. But vaccinations are orders of magnitude less risky to one and all than going unimmunized. Splitting the difference doesn’t work, either. Split the difference between a good idea and a bad idea and what one is left with is still a bad idea.As for the continued industrial misuse of antibiotics, OMG!
OldCoal: Those antibiotics get into the eater’s system, knocking off weaker strains while letting resistant ones survive. A lot more of this process is carried out by doctors routinely giving a shot when the problem is viral rather than bacterial – there is a whopping markup in what they pay and what they charge for the shot. And from Jenner onward, I have yet to see a disease beat an immunization – that is a whole different category.
sukiec about 9 years ago
Accurate
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 9 years ago
We make our beds, and we lie in them.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Al Capp put it out there; what’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA. The pharmaceutical, insurance, and “health care” industries are “for profit” and Congress has guaranteed them excessive profits, they’re today’s “General Bullmoose”. And they feed us what the bull leaves behind.
veronique auzon engel about 9 years ago
One of my uncles died at 62 and my grandfather at 69. They were both white males with enough money to afford any health care that money could buy.The average life span of a Frenchman is the highest in the world; 6 years more the American male.
Not much to do with medecine, but eating habits and diet.
And, it is said, that two glasses of red wine a day will increase one’s life span………“No, twclix, put that case of wine away, I said two glasses, not a bottle!”……hee, hee.
Alexander the Good Enough about 9 years ago
If one is the sort that wants to minimize their children’s interactions with the medical system, and considering the medical system overall who doesn’t, then one WILL get their children immunized COMPLETELY and ON SCHEDULE! It’s a matter of relative risk, and the human inability to assess that risk. But vaccinations are orders of magnitude less risky to one and all than going unimmunized. Splitting the difference doesn’t work, either. Split the difference between a good idea and a bad idea and what one is left with is still a bad idea.As for the continued industrial misuse of antibiotics, OMG!
hippogriff about 9 years ago
OldCoal: Those antibiotics get into the eater’s system, knocking off weaker strains while letting resistant ones survive. A lot more of this process is carried out by doctors routinely giving a shot when the problem is viral rather than bacterial – there is a whopping markup in what they pay and what they charge for the shot. And from Jenner onward, I have yet to see a disease beat an immunization – that is a whole different category.