Prior to the passage of the new Health Bill the United States was spending $2.1 trillion a year on health care, a cost of $7,026 for every person in the country. Health care represents 16 percent of the national economy and these costs are still rising. One of the biggest problems is that heath care is a maze of paperwork, you stay two days in the hospital and you get this bill that looks like the Kansas City Star Sunday Newspaper, if you are insured all we see is how much you have to pay and never question any charges. Too many times there are unnecessary tests, inflated prices attached to products, and unnecessary services as part of this itemized maze. At times a particular cost may be a point of discussion with our friends “they charged me $10.00 a piece for sanitary napkins” but we never pursue these charges. “The insurance company will catch that”, we say and nothing more is said, but then the insurance company raises your rates and you protest.

This is too often the scenario and it has caused our rates to sky rocket, we never blame the health providers its always the insurance company as being the bad guys. A friend of mine was pregnant, she had complications, and the baby was born three months premature. It was a long stressful time for the family because the baby required a heart monitor and a 24-hour watch. Continue reading ‘Who is Responsible For Our Health Care Problems?’ »

Nowadays, more and more people are paying great attention to health care. In fact, many daily habits which are not paid attention to by the public are unhealthy to threaten our health. There are some unhealthy daily habits to be introduced here in order to help people avoid them in the future.

The first unhealthy daily habit is to use white paper to wrap the food. In order to make the white paper whiter, many manufacturers always make use of bleaching agent during the process of production. The bleaching agent will cause a series of chemical reactions and produce some harmful materials when it touches the food. Therefore, it is unhealthy to use white paper to wrap the food. Continue reading ‘Unhealthy Daily Habits’ »