The Business Model of Health Care Reform Is Expensive And Ineffective

The existing business model of health care in this country is very good at what has been referred to as the “body & fender” component of modern medicine. However, it is dismally ignorant of what it takes to “keep the engine humming” and thus avoid disastrous system failure. This article takes a closer look at why the business model for health care stands in need of reform.

Rejects Wholistic Medicine

The American health care system looks at the human body the same way a mechanic looks at an automobile. If a part is broken just repair or replace it, no need to consider the system as a whole. This is a mechanistic, rather than a wholistic approach.

There is a de-emphasis on nutrition and suppression of natural healing techniques that are far more effective than the chemical approach to health care. The natural healing approach uses natural substances (as presented in nature) to augment natural healing processes within the body.

Embraces Harmful Drug Therapy

Drugs are produced which alleviate or mask symptoms and do not address underlying causes of disease. Drugs promote an acidic condition in the body which leads to retraction of the disease and sets the stage for other problems. A misleading distinction between “good” and “bad” drugs is established in the public mind.

And tragically, in too many cases the side effects are fatal. The Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5) reported that physician induced illness is the third leading cause of death in the United States behind Cancer and heart disease. The article ascribed over 100,000 deaths to the negative effects of doctor administered drugs. Trust in the competency of hospital staff is too often misplaced.

Driven By Profit Motive

The American health insurance system exacerbates the problem by limiting coverage to the ineffective and expensive conventional treatments. This hampers the emergence of powerful breakthroughs that arise outside of mainstream medicine. Moreover, it forces everybody who has access to health insurance into the ineffectual system, which almost guarantees that they will develop serious degenerative disease.

At the same time, the insurance system provides no incentive for consumers to practice preventative medicine and further escalates costs. The system rewards inactivity and passive response, but does little or nothing to incentivize personal responsibility.

The prevailing business model has a vested interest in maintaining a diseased condition in the populace, which requires ongoing purchase of expensive drugs. Breakthroughs that result in actual healing or cure are a threat to the system. Thus, billions are spent on propaganda to convince the public and health care practitioners that drugs are the way to go.

The business model has driven costs into the stratosphere and made benefits of health care unavailable to the poor and much of the middle class apart from so-called government assistance. The ineffectiveness of the existing business model is legendary and invites further government intervention to “solve” the problem with health care reform.

For more on the dangers inherent in government involvement in health care see part two in our series: 1) The Business Model, 2)The Government Model, and 3) The Biblical Model.

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