a)How the Health Care Systems Vary / b) Food=Medicine

Have you ever wondered why you and many others are dissatisfied with the U.S Health Care System? Do you know what foods you are eating? What it does to your body? Do you know what really causes cancer? Keep reading! P.s. these are all research-based evidence.

The Health Care System around the world is different. Some countries have Universal Health Coverage while other countries do not or they don't have enough money for it.

For instance, let's take Asia as an example and compare it to the US.

Japan

Japan spends a very healthy 8.2% of its GDP (the monetary value of all finished goods and services made within a country during a specific period.GDP provides an economic snapshot of a country, used to estimate the size of an economy and growth rate.GDP can be calculated in three ways, using expenditures, production, or incomes) on health care (roughly the same as Canada and the Netherlands), has a good ratio of doctors to population (nearly 3 per 1,000 people— similar to the UK), and the performance of its health care system places it at 10th place in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) World health report published in 2000. These statistics are reflected in the high standard of care available to both nationals and foreigners in the country, which is paid for through a mandatory health scheme — either through the employer or directly by the individual.

Take a look at the graph shown below:

Japan ranks #1 infant mortality! It's almost hard to believe.

Japan ranks as one of the top-performing healthcare systems in the world, by any meaningful measure. Japan has the longest life expectancy of any major country. Also, no one from the island nation of 130 million has gone bankrupt due to medical fees. Meanwhile, in the U.S., 643,000 Americans go bankrupt every year over medical bills.

Japan spends$4,150 per capita on healthcare; the United States more than double at $9,451.

It's not just infant mortality but also what people put in their bodies such as drugs. (ex: tobacco, vape, alcohol, etc.)

Thought bubble time.

America's health care system is EMPLOYERS. Employers act as the "middle man" reducing consumer buying power and preventing the market from efficiently balancing prices and supply. Employers provide very little value other than serving to collect money (by law) from employees so the government doesn’t have to. It’s a nice way for the government to tax people without increasing taxes.

However, the United States makes a big mistake by involving employers at all.

Here is a different graph:

See how the United States uses more money compared to Canada, Japan, and Germany? Yet they are still on the bottom of the graph I showed previously.

It's QUALITY over COST.

South Korea

Health care in South Korea is of a very high standard. With just over 2 doctors per 1,000 people (similar to neighboring Japan), the country’s health care system is ranked as 58th in the world by the World Health Organization. Modern and efficient, both Western and traditional Eastern medicine is covered by the government’s health insurance scheme. Employed ex-pats will be covered through their employer, while the unemployed and self-employed need to enroll through a hospital, with costs varying according to income.

Taiwan

Health care facilities in urban Taiwan are considered to be of a very high standard, easy to access, and affordable. Doesn't that sound nice? Expats(people who live outside of their native country) living and working in Taiwan will be enrolled in and subsidized by their employer for the public health scheme, while resident dependants should register at a hospital. The scheme’s associated health insurance card needs to be shown when you see a doctor. You don’t need an appointment to see a general practitioner (GP, also known as a family doctor) and it is possible to make an appointment with a specialist without a medical referral.

What's a family doctor?

Unlike specialists, family practitioners treat each organ and every disease in both genders of all ages. They also can help you manage chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis. They can treat acute situations such as sinus infections and injuries. They can help you throughout a pregnancy as well.

Anyway, you get the message right?

As a New Yorker, I have to be careful from getting really sick or any serious health problems, considering the fact that we still have the coronavirus on the loose.

What SHOULD you do then?

Have you ever heard of the saying "Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"?

It emphasizes the importance of nutrition to prevent or cure diseases which are

in fact true.

Before I became plant-based, I used to have common stomach aches. They occur almost every day or five to six days a week. My mother and I do not have a strong stomach, and on the other hand, my mother wasn't built that strong, to begin with so she would all of a sudden collapse from the pain. When she was a little girl, around 9 years old, she had a disease called Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and her digestive system was very weak. She would always have to be sent to the hospital during school hours. On top of that, the food that her mother provided was all GMO and processed foods. Pig meat is broad, but since her mother didn't like to cook, she would be given sausages and ham with eggs. They are all processed foods.

This proves that medicine doesn't really HEAL you and that it's only a temporary thing.

She started cooking and studied nutrition while she was in the hospital. She started eating more vegetables but of course, she still ate animal-based foods but she started thinking about balancing her dish such as thinking about protein, calcium, fiber, etc.

She still had stomach pain after she ate sausages so she later started researching sausages and she was so shocked by what she found and immediately cut out pig meat from her diet.

I will talk about pig meat in another post :)

Let's talk more about diseases. If you look at the chart below, you can see how people passed away due to stupid marketing in which the companies risk the consumers' life for their money. Ever question why they still sell things that are the leading cause of cancer?

It's because of money. M-O-N-E-Y. Yet tobacco is legally sold in virtually every country in the world and, after decades of understanding its harm, it remains not only legal but highly accessible and profitable (to everyone but the consumer) in Canada.

Our governments collect $2.81 billion in tobacco sales taxes federally, which is LESS THAN 1% of all federal government spending in 2013. That’s staggering. Fully 1% of federal spending from a substance that only produces disease, debilitation, and death – with no benefits. The provinces collect an additional $4.67 billion (2012–2013). Yes, there are benefits from tobacco taxation including fewer smokers, higher government revenues and healthier society and as respiratory therapists, we should applaud the use of the excise tax lever that the government can use discriminately. However, the direct and indirect cost of lung cancer, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Canada is $12.0 billion (2012 figure), of which smoking is considered to be the number one cause. That’s not a good trade-off, even if you only consider it economically.

Here is a link to show you the graph:

www.smoke-free.ca/pdf_1/totaltax.pdf

The industry maintains that advertising is used only to fight for brand share and that it does not increase total consumption - academic research shows otherwise since advertising increases total consumption as well as promoting brand share. Smoking causes many kinds of cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses which are fatal for many sufferers. The industry still does not publicly accept that smoking causes lung cancer. The annual global death toll caused by smoking is 4 million. By 2030, that figure will rise to 10 million with seventy percent of those deaths occurring in developing countries. Even if you don't smoke, there is a thing called second-hand smoke where you inhale the smoke from the tobacco even if you aren't the one smoking it. Second-hand smoke is a real public health hazard, including causing childhood diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, cot-death and glue ear, and is a cause of lung cancer and heart disease in adults. The industry has mounted a major disinformation campaign in this area.

Cardiovascular disease, which refers to the disease of the heart or blood vessels, is caused by an unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, being overweight, and smoking. Although that's what it says and that is what doctors say, that's not the only thing why. It's also because of meat. Doctors might not be saying this because they don't want to hurt the meat industry but they should think about our lives than the industry's stupid money, However, if they are doctors, they should tell their patients that meat is the cause of almost every disease and every cancer. You cannot keep hiding from the truth. As for me, although I knew that meat and other animal-based products are the leading cause of cancer, I had to research deep down into the internet to find that piece of information.

CANCERS THAT ARE CAUSED BY ANIMALS:

As a dancer, I have had many injuries, some are not bad but some were serious. However, ever since I started a plant-based diet, I started to recover faster than before and I was able to get back on track. My stamina also improved.