Connecting the Dots
March 20th, 2010Ireland spends €4,000 PER PERSON, per year, on state funded hospitals, doctors, medication etc. (”Health Spending”)
For a family of Four that is €16,000 spent on “Health” for the year.
Gosh, Irish people must be REAL healthy.
Well, no they are not.
Ireland has among the highest rates of Osteoporosis, Cancer, Heart Disease, Depression.
Ireland’s Health Minister is Obese.
Ireland’s Prime Minister is Obese.
Ireland’s Finance Minister has cancer.
Ireland has the fattest children in Europe, and the second fattest children in the world.
Ireland is headed for an epidemic of avoidable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, even worse than now.
Is there a connection between spending so much on “Health” and getting such measurably BAD results.
There certainly is a connection.
Ireland spends practically nothing on education on Healthy Lifestyle.
In fact, far more government spending goes to promote foods that are provably harmful. (Beef, dairy, pork, chicken, eggs).
To summarise,
Ireland spends a LOT of money to promote harmful foods.
Ireland spends almost no money on healthy lifestyle education.
As a result,
Irish people are SICK and FAT.
So Ireland spends €4,000 each per year on “Healthcare” which is in reality emergency medicine.
It is like an arsonist funding a fire fighting service.
The results are
1. More power concentrated to government.
2. Sick unhappy poor people.
3. Rich unhealthy food industries.
4. Vastly rich Medical and Pharmaceutical industries.
We get what we pay for.
Special note, if you are NOT from Ireland, don’t feel smug, it is more or less the same in your country. Ireland is given because I am aware of the figures.
The solution:
We all take individual responsibility for our health, starting right now.