Andrew Weil, MD – Real Healthcare Reform

Andrew Weil, MD a Harvard trained physician and bestselling author for three decades speaks on Larry King about what real healthcare reform is. Here are his high points:

• What we have is as disease management system for a healthcare system.
• Lifestyle is the key to health
• Low tech vs. high tech – i.e., bodywork, acupuncture, herbs, homeopathy and more vs. expensive, invasive and not health generating procedures
• Band drugs ads
• Health education – real health education, lifestyle education starting in elementary school
• Real prevention
  • Not expensive tests
  • Basic, core changes
  • We pay for intervention, not prevention
  • Support the strong movement to reform medicine
    • From medical school
    • Economic crisis is forcing change
    • Need to work a making people healthy
    • Drug lobby is very powerful, i.e. preventing Medicare buying drugs at a discount
      • Trained us the only way to treat disease is through drugs
      • Our physicians are more generalist vs. specialist
        • Countries with more generalist are healthier
        • The money from healthcare goes into the pockets of those who don’t want to see it change
          • Healthcare is an industry – it needs to be non-profit
          • You can’t afford to get sick today
          • What we get for our money is disgusting
          • Physicians are disturb about the healthcare industry
          • Today’s healthcare industry is like our banking industry

Dr. Weil has always been an articulate advocate for holistic health. Now with his new book he is a strong advocate for reforming the core of our healthcare industry.

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