MEP Daniel Hannan on Washington Journal 3/3

MEP Daniel Hannan takes phone calls from Americans on Washington Journal April 3, 2009 Part 3 of 3

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[TheLadiesChoice7]

Hannan, wow, what a statesman.

[Thatcheriteme]

Just to reiterate what Daniel is saying, please dont have nationalized healthcare. We have 30 million people paying into the system in Britian, through tax. Yet the whole nation (60 million) drawing upon it. Not to mention the burden of uncontroled immigration. There are people here who class themselves as poor, yet have plasma TV`s and so forth. If they can afford these, why carnt they set aside monies for there health?

[tincoffin]

@rayme4raw The problem with your system seems to be the enormous cost - you pay nearly double what other developed nations pay for healthcare . I thought one way of reducing costs was to reduce legal liability of doctors etc but I think that is only part of your problem with an insurance based system.

[rayme4raw]

Doctors are restricted in what they are allowed to do. If a doctor could discuss nutrition with a patient then they would have the opportunity to address a patients lifestyle. 90% of all diseases are lifestyle diseases. Heart disease can be cured by adopting a vegan diet periodically. Cancer can be prevented by learning about detoxification. Obesity can also be addressed by detoxification. But the medical community would take the doctor's license away from him if he truly address health.

[rayme4raw]

I'm aware of tort reform, but I don't see it as the cure for the current health care crisis. I don't think that it's the biggest problem. Doctors don't heal, they prescribe drugs, tests, surgeries, throw in some chemo. As long as a doctor cannot discuss nutrition, he's armed only with a prescription pad and some last minute surgical procedures that could be prevented by addressing the patients lifestyle. 90% of all diseases are lifestyle diseases.

[tincoffin]

@rayme4raw Yes i raised this some time ago . What happened to tort reform I think you call it in US . Doctors can get sued for trivial mistakes which adds to the insurance costs.

[rayme4raw]

Poor doctors, here in the US, doctors are legally unable to talk to their patients about nutrition. They can tell you to eat healthy, but they cannot give you a list of what to eat. People are not told the truth that most of what they eat is designed to get them eating more, creating profit for companies. I agree with spending more money on the best most nutritious food first and less on housing, cars, gadgets and toys. People buy material crap & spend next to nothing on food. Priorities?

[rntrammell]

That is an ignorant statement. Doctors can only do so much. When people don't take responsibility upon themselves, doctors have little they can do. Basically, when individuals eat unhealthy food, don't exercise and live a gluttonous life, doctors can only perform so many bypass surgeries, prescribe so much medications, etc. To say that doctors are not doing their jobs, is incorrect. At the same time, our society needs to realize the consequences of their actions could be death.

[rayme4raw]

Daniel is right about socialized medicine. Although having health care being controlled by monopolies hasn't served us well, we need to realize the utter failure of Western Modern Medicine. This year, 750,000 Americans will die from heart disease, 565,000 will die from cancer, 125,000 will die from prescription drugs prescribed correctly, another 125,000 will die from prescription drugs prescribed incorrectly & 60% of our population is obese. Are our drs doing any healing, why use this system