Greed is as Greed Does

 I'm tired. 

I know that, logically speaking, I'd be less tired if I ate right, exercised, and drank water. Or, at least, that's what doctors tell me.

They also tell me that I should come in to see them regularly, and take my meds regularly. Which, on one hand, I know is also true. On the more cynical hand, I look at their demand to see them as them robbing me.

It's not hard to see how difficult the health of America is right now. Much of it can be boiled down to a few top reasons, in no particular order:

- highly processed foods with little nutritional value but a lot of fillers, that is cheap and easy to get

- rapidly rising costs of healthy foods, with limited access to them due to either mileage or low wages

- increasing costs of employer-paid insurance premiums, causing employers to move to lower-cost, high-deductibles plans, which place the majority of costs on the employee until they reach that deductible.

The US has quite often struggled with the idea that health is not just a "calories in, exercise out" formulary. The BMI, long thought to be a "perfect" number, has actually proven to be quite problematic as we see more and more people with differing body shapes and sizes pushing back on the notion that one body type is the only way to be healthy. 

As people have gotten older, and lived longer, insurance and pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in keeping anything but their hefty bottom lines intact. Pushing back on employers and ultimately, policy holders, to pay more and more for the same or reduced services and medicines and made the average person in the US less likely to fulfill their health goals due to stress and cost worries.

So, yeah... I'm tired. And I'm sick of the BS that the US has reached.