Reply #15: IMO most of the health care problems are due to the patient.

[heidler1]

I've belonged to the same medicare supplement insurer for 16 years since I turned 65 and have had at least 10 different primary care Doctors. None of them were perfect, but most of them were willing for me to see a specialist if I wanted to. There is an additional fee for doing this. All of them paid for annual blood work to see if something is out of balance with my prescriptions. I take three. Two of them were over prescribed IMO so I halved the dosage and watched the results of my blood work to see if there was any indication of a problem. There wasn't any. I never told the Doctor. So my $5 each co-pay on those two lasts an extra month. I believe that eventually a persons blood work plus a genetic read will be the way to go with deciding if a persons body is functioning OK.

Way too many people are told to quit smoking and refuse to do it. I noticed if I drink two cups of coffee my heart would skip beats so I gave up one and no more problem. If I over indulge in alcohol my pulse rate goes way up so I quit doing that. We all need to be tuned into our body and react accordingly.