Friday, July 18, 2008

Quarter of Chinese adults are overweight, obese: US study (AFP)

A doctor treats an obese patient at a hospital in Shanghai, in 2004. Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president the chances of a National Health Insurance program are better than 50/50. My question is this; where would our friends from North of the border then go for their prompt medical needs that are not available through their National Health Care plan?

We all agree our current private Insurance plans are fraught with more problems than space allows me to list. With control and cost of Health Care vested in private 3rd party payers, we consumers are digging deeper and deeper into our pockets to enjoy less and less in Health and Dental benefits.

Currently 175 million Americans have no Dental Insurance and are either uninsured or under-insured for Health Insurance. Add to that, somewhere in this country people are sitting around the kitchen table trying to decide where to spend their money; food or medicine. Not a good choice, certainly not one any of us would want to face.

Since 1942 we have all become accustomed to looking for a 3rd party to cover our medical expenses. At its inception, the idea was a good one, but over time that policy has taken on a life of its own and has grown into an outrageously expensive and grossly inefficient industry that was not initially intended. There you see a prime example of the "Law of Unintended Consequences".

Well now that I pointed out the problem, what is the answer? One solution that seems to make sense to me and millions of other Americans is consumer driven Health Care. It is the one true answer to medical benefits to the self employed, the victims of downsizing, employers who branched chain amino acid powder Medical Insurance benefits, divorce or death of a spouse, the uninsurable or any number of other reasons for no health insurance. My research has uncovered many such plans, but there is one that is head and shoulders above the rest of such plans being marketed. This company was the pioneer of consumer driven Health Care. Over 400,000 primary care and specialist providers, 30,000 dental offices, 50,000 pharmacies and 7,500 chiropractors joined this company offering their services at a deeply discounted rate to more than 2,000,000 Americans at an affordable cost.

To see a viable, inexpensive alternative to Hillary's or any other plan of 3rd party payers, either public or private, visit http://www.affordablehealthcare4u.net

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