Comments on: SONA 2007: What The Hell Happened To Health Care? http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html The Voice of A Filipino Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:22:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: nick http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-13624 nick Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:28:44 +0000 http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html#comment-13624 This is the kind of information of course, that The Filipino people is being deprived of, if only they knew what was possible, that health care is possible were it not for the corruption and lack of real public service that comes from our politicians. This is the kind of information of course, that The Filipino people is being deprived of, if only they knew what was possible, that health care is possible were it not for the corruption and lack of real public service that comes from our politicians.

]]> By: nick http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-13623 nick Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:25:09 +0000 http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html#comment-13623 Neonate, I think you're reading my mind. Your thinking is exactly the kind of meaningful discussion that should be discussed, not the rubbish that the SONA became... Please read my recent post on the <a href="http://www.tingog.com/videos/cnn-youtube-debates-video-highlights.html" rel="nofollow">CNN Youtube debates</a>, under the heading, "Tough questions on health care", my brief commentary on preventative health care is there. God Bless Filipinos like you, who understand the issues. Neonate, I think you’re reading my mind. Your thinking is exactly the kind of meaningful discussion that should be discussed, not the rubbish that the SONA became… Please read my recent post on the CNN Youtube debates, under the heading, “Tough questions on health care”, my brief commentary on preventative health care is there.

God Bless Filipinos like you, who understand the issues.

]]> By: neonate http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-13622 neonate Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:16:05 +0000 http://www.tingog.com/government/sona-2007-what-the-hell-happened-to-health-care.html#comment-13622 If PhilHealth shelled out 3 billion for the hospitalization of the poor, this means Philhealth cards were used, cards doled out in self-serving political patronage. But that is not my beef – I am now inured to the ubiquitous corruption of this administration. My dismay is the prevailing healthcare paradigm of healing and cure with MEDICINE instead of the UN proposal to adopt Preventive Medicine as public health policy. Prevention of disease is much less costly than the current mindset of healing a disease, never mind the Pharma rapacity. Infectious disease prevention is so easy to implement with hardly any cost – hygiene (mostly hand washing), sanitation (clean surroundings to keep away disease vectors: flies, mosquitoes etc) and eating nutritious food. Chronic disease like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, elevated BP and cholesterol can be avoided by 80%, and up to 40% of cancer by simply eating the right diet, exercising and avoiding tobacco. This concept can be propagated by trained Barangay health workers who can also inhibit the use of Paracetamol and other painkillers (all toxic if abused) and anti-biotics to preclude creating superbugs. If PhilHealth shelled out 3 billion for the hospitalization of the poor, this means Philhealth cards were used, cards doled out in self-serving political patronage. But that is not my beef – I am now inured to the ubiquitous corruption of this administration.
My dismay is the prevailing healthcare paradigm of healing and cure with MEDICINE instead of the UN proposal to adopt Preventive Medicine as public health policy. Prevention of disease is much less costly than the current mindset of healing a disease, never mind the Pharma rapacity. Infectious disease prevention is so easy to implement with hardly any cost – hygiene (mostly hand washing), sanitation (clean surroundings to keep away disease vectors: flies, mosquitoes etc) and eating nutritious food. Chronic disease like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, elevated BP and cholesterol can be avoided by 80%, and up to 40% of cancer by simply eating the right diet, exercising and avoiding tobacco.
This concept can be propagated by trained Barangay health workers who can also inhibit the use of Paracetamol and other painkillers (all toxic if abused) and anti-biotics to preclude creating superbugs.

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