Pushing For Wellness Care Instead Of Healthcare

I think it is time we start pushing for healthcare to transform into wellness care.

Medications and treatments can save lives and sometimes they can be miracles. But we should not be focusing the majority of our attention on the treatment of disease. We should be spending at least as much time focused on preventing disease for our future generations.

This will be done through changes in the healthcare system that recognize the importance of long-term, real solutions to health like exercise, healthy diet, sleep, stress reduction, and vitamin D to name a few.

Doctors should be given the power, and motivation to prescribe things like gym memberships, farmers market food vouchers, yoga classes, etc. and those should be covered or subsidized by healthcare.

Think about the long-term health implications of this and even the financial saving we would see as a nation if we spent a little now for a lot later.