“1. Diet & Exercise – Be proactive about your health – over 90% of our health care is non-preventative. Eat good foods and get out of the house for a walk, run or a swim.”

But “Be[ing] proactive about your health” is not covered in the following viewpoint which is on another page of your site:

“Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, I believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration. Again, I oppose any public funding for abortion.”

“[G]good-faith views” on murder? The very worst thing a mother can do *for her health* is to kill her own child. Today, the 32nd anniversary of the death of my daughter by abortion (I could even tell you the time!), still stings, and I encourage you to pray more about your weak stance, for while you might think it will help you with votes (surely — as a health warrior — you don’t REALLY think a mother should kill her own child, thus sending her mental, physical not to mention any spiritual health she might of had, down the drain (along with her child), you aren’t pulling any strings with God. Aren’t there any holistic politicians like yourself (I *really* enjoyed reading the above; I’m a distributor for essential oils) out there that *also* has the “Rock[s]” to stand up for Life from womb to tomb? God help US.

Could you please provide a citation for this number?

As one of the uninsured young, healthy Americans, I can assure you that I don’t ‘choose’ to go without health insurance. For myself and many others just out of college, we can ‘choose’ between paying rent and eating or getting healthy insurance. We’re very much aware that we’re gambling with our health and well-being by not being insured, but when you’re fighting tooth-and-nail in this job market for opportunities that will barely keep debt collectors off your back, health insurance isn’t on the radar.

some good ideas are in here, but in practice they may not work.

Your “About Marc” section has almost nothing about you. This is a nice wordpress site, but I think we need to see a little more about you, other than that we know you used the Columbus hockey team’s logo.

When most people in the US think of getting medicines from other countries, they think of Canada and Mexico. Mexico has a virtually unregulated system and I am not comfortable placing my health in their hands. Just walk into a pharmacia in Mexico and you will understand. Health Canada (Canadian version of the US FDA) has regulations that allow import of medicines into Canada without regard for the quality of those medicines as long as those medicines are only passing through Canada. So ordering medicines from Canada through the mail, does not guarantee that a patient in obtaining medicines approved for use in Canada by Health Canada. Very scary stuff.

Importing medicines from other countries is dangerous. Both Democratic (Clinton) and Republican (Bush) administrations have refused to enact regulations on importantion, despite acts passed by Congress, because of safety concerns for the public. Importation is a political issue that sounds good, but is in fact dangerous.

The FDA, and others have studied international mail order pharmacy operations. They universally have found that many medicines are counterfeit, are contaminated, are placebos, are not labeled properly, and in some cases harmful to patients.

Although I know that Americans have more elective and preventative procedures performed than people in other countries, I will assume that Mori’s statistic is honest and we’re simply paying more for health care than everyone else. So where is all that extra money going?

In large part, it’s going to the insurance companies. I’m surprised no one has yet unveiled the multi-billion dollar insurance industry conglomerate as being an instrument of the state. The U.S. has more laws and regulations regarding health care than the next 3 highest-paying countries combined.

The rules and regulations forced onto this — yes, very regulated — marketplace in essence make competition for individual health insurance policies a thing of the past. We’re all in “groups” now, by government (and corporate) design, and hence everybody is paying for everyone else’s health care in a highly convoluted and bureaucratic fashion. This is the way it is right now — not tomorrow after D.C. passes whatever well-intended reform they think will change the world.

Today’s health care industry is far from a free market, and has become less and less free over the course of recent decades. Profits go to the bureaucrats who dictate the rules and simply act as middlemen when the only people who should be involved in a purchase of a medical service is you, your doctor, and (if you wish) your own personal insurance agent/policy.

And we are to fix this problem by adding more government regulation, bureaucracy, and subsidies? Call me a skeptic.