Healthy Living

Healthcare is getting a bad press. In  any communally funded system, - that is every system apart from those rare situations where the patient pays individually for all the help received at the time -, the public , the payers, think we spend too much on healthcare and the patients in their need think we spend too little. Maybe healthcare is doing just fine! What else should we spend our money on? As individuals we all need a constant supply of air, warmth, water and food and would die if such supplies were interrupted. To do this requires a major part of our expenditures. After that in order of priorities would come health protection and healthcare. Well behind would come a vast raft of comparatively frivolous activities which we could probably cut back with no risk to our well-being or future prospects. Healthcare needs to stand up for itself and shout its case to the four winds. The public then might change its stance and better recognise the value of what we do.