Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

re: Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

Dr. David Spitz — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:03:11 GMT

It's scary to think that we work our whole lives, save, save, save; only to have most of our savings taken up in health care costs.

Prevention is the cheapest alternative. The younger you are, the better chance you have of preventing the chronic ills affecting most Americans.

If you're ready to retire and you haven't spent years working on prevention, you may want to think about Panama. They have very low cost insurance, great weather and their beef is grass fed.

re: Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

dhrishta — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:14:26 GMT

Not if you shop for health care like you do for any other product and pay no attention to insurance except for its original purpose -- catastrophic coverage. Oh and let's beat back every attempt to mandate universal "health" coverage to subsidize the conventional medical system which is broken. Even in the unlikely event of insurance covering exercise and nutritional expenses, those of us employing holistic health practices which are inexpensive and work would still end up subsidizing conventional approaches which as we've seen are expensive and do not work.

re: Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

karrus — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:17:05 GMT

Almost everyone reading this is struggling to pay for health insurance now. The best thing that is going to happen when no one can afford health insurance anymore is that people will have to stop taking drugs, they will have to take care of themselves and the drug companies will then go bankrupt.

re: Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

mmc88121 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:00:57 GMT

Whenever you are paying 50% of your income for something you are paying to much. I can just hear people who are trapped in the medical model complaining about how much their medications cost. While many of them at the same time state that natural cures are "quack" cures or just don't work, yet be unwilling to try them.
Mary

re: Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

Russ Bianchi — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:38:16 GMT

A pinch of prevention remains worth more than a pound of cure.

re: Why You Will Spend Crazy Money on Health Care When You Retire

Aram Ovsepian — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:24:59 GMT

That is exactly why we should work on Prevention, Prevention and more Prevention.

If you don't want to live your golden years in the hospital with very expensive equipment and drugged by overly "researched" drugs try eating a steady diet of MT balanced organic foods, exercise regularly, manage the stress level and most definitely fall in Love with yourself. When you do that that, you will have extra $215 000 to spend on you. Just imagine how much of good food you can buy on that money.

To learn more please check out my WholeLiving Podcast about "Foundational Principals of Health".