My Passion on Healthcare

I have found that I have a serious passion for fixing the currently fucked up healthcare system.
The healthcare system currently aids the insurance companies and not the people seeking healthcare. Low income and lower socioeconomic-classed peoples get lower quality healthcare because they do not have the money to afford it. They are poor because they cannot afford proper education, transportation and health services among other things. But is it the chicken or the egg? Poor education leads to lower incomes which leads to inability to make proper health choices (diet, lifestyle, higher stress, etc.) which ultimately leads to poorer health; these people are caught in an endless cycle.

Not to mention, healthcare nowadays is not what it should be. I hope that I live long enough to see the popular term of "healthcare" change to "health promotion/disease prevention." That's what we should working towards. Do you realize how expensive and time-consuming it is to treat a 60 year old man with congestive heart failure in the hospital setting? A lot. Do you know how much it costs to teach that same man 40 years earlier about the risks of heart disease, and no I don't mean make a website about cardiovascular disease, I mean really teach. Get out in the community, make learning fun. Help these people realize what it takes to prevent disease and that it can be enjoyable with a healthy lifestyle. I guar an-damn-tee you that it costs significantly less to effectively teach people ahead of time than focus on management of symptoms and complications associated with completely preventable disease.

My favorite saying about this goes:  "An ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure." Think of all the money we would save if we changed our system. Millions, billions of dollars. We would have a happier and healthier community, and maybe the job description of a nurse today would change completely.