Healthcare in Ancient China
In ancient China they had a very different health system. People paid a subscription to a doctor. It was the doctor's job to keep his patients healthy. As long as they were healthy, they were required to pay the subscription. If someone became sick - they did not pay their subscription, because the doctor did not do the job they were supposed to do. Maybe he gave bad advice or provided a wrong treatment.
Among other things, this created a system where a person paid while they were healthy and could work, and did not pay when they were weak and sick (and incapable of working). Furthermore, the doctor was rewarded for keeping someone healthy, rather than the system we have, where the doctor is rewarded (paid) when we are sick. Our system has a financial incentive built in to make, or keep people sick. - and we call it a health care system!
I do have to note that the system of medicine practiced was about detecting imbalances in the body and knowing how to take corrective actions to restore balance before disease erupted. Whereas the kind of medicine we have chases symptoms after the imbalances have gone on so long that full blown diseases have erupted. Theirs was based on prevention. Ours is based on symptom repression without real understanding of why they arose. We simply blame a bacteria or a virus - not recognizing that the condition of the body allowed the bacteria and viruses to thrive, rather than killing them off.
Yes, that's true, our medical system has many malice activities. and the ancient system was very effective. now a days medicine industry is all about money making.
anyways keep flourishing.
That is really interesting. It is crazy to think of a time when the insurance companies weren't in the middle of everything messing it all up. I like the idea of taking care of imbalances before they grow into something better. I think there is way too little time and money invested into preventative medicine these days. I don't know if everyone is just too busy or if their isn't the money in it like there is in prescribing stuff after the fact...
That's actually a really interesting system. That makes a lot of sense to me. Pay while you're healthy and not while you're sick - basically paying for a successful service and not an unsuccessful one. Very cool
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I think the natural way of medicine is more safer than taking an advance meds
Yeah, indeed, Chinese medicine is something wonderful, and believe me, it's a whole medicine apart from the traditional one. I could easily state that it's a masterpiece that not everyone can assimilate. 90% percent of medicine is based on primary prevention, and the fact that doctors were paid while the folks were healthy brings up again how smart Chinese people are. That way allows us to avoid fuss like healthcare fraud (https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/5-keys-to-selecting-the-best-detroit-healthcare-fraud-defense-attorney-61921 ). What do you reckon about that?