healthcare system – Empty Space

If you live a reckless life, eat all kinds of things from alcohols to rotten meats, you are covered. If you spend most of your time on the couch eating chips and beers, you are covered. But if you live a healthy life, you are NOT covered. Our health system does not recognize healthy people. Be aware!

If you are the kind of person who leads a conscious, healthy life, chances are that the government won’t support you much. You will be left on your own. If you cook your food, eat healthy foods, keep yourself physically active and keep yourself absolutely healthy, you will not get any rebates or rewards. If you don’t visit hospitals because you are healthy, you won’t get any healthcare support from the government. By keeping yourself healthy, you might have also contributed to the country unknowingly and saved millions of dollars. But you won’t get a dime in return.

If you are leading a healthy lifestyle, you will actually be contributing to create peace and harmony in the society as well. You will be a part of the solution in your society, since you don’t create problems in the first place. But these things won’t be valued by our current system.

You get the reward or something in return, only if you are unhealthy. If you have some diseases then the government will spend money on you, to provide services such as insurance, food subsidies, hospital visits, treatments of various chronic diseases and so on. Otherwise no.

Our health system does not recognizes the healthy population. Not just derecognize, the system actually penalizes these healthy people.

Even if you are extremely healthy with no hospital visits for the past 10 years, you still need to go through the hassle of COVID-19 passport for travels and so on. You are definitely a person with lowest health risk but it won’t matter. You have a better immune system and you are less prone to such diseases, but our healthcare system doesn’t recognize it. So you still need to get injected. And if you don’t get it, you will be put on ‘restrictions’ like you can’t attend meetings and so on. That is our future. It is going to happen. The system only knows this — all people are equally susceptible to the diseases. The steps that you have taken to make yourself healthy has no role to play against the diseases. That is what our system understands. That is the definition of equal treatment in our healthcare system.

It is time to recognize the contributions made by those who have chosen to live a healthy life. Those who have taken a more sustainable approach of living. Why not reward those who choose to use bicycles to go to their school or office? Not driving is a big deal in this age. We must reward those people who are not making our air and water dirtier. Why not reward people who recycle things?

Why not create some ‘health rebate’ for them? If not, how will our future generations be motivated to lead such a life? Do we want our children to live in indulgence?

Earth’s atmosphere has a certain capacity. It can dilute the pollution only to a certain extent. If we don’t encourage healthy habits, we will have to face the consequences. All cities will have to bear the consequences of water and air pollution in the near future. Diseases will be more common. There will be more deaths. We can’t cry afterwards, like we are doing now. We must face the consequences.