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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