Are you Healthy?

I suppose it depends on your definition.  Dr. Gilbert Welch suggests the following definition best represents the current U.S. medical-industrial complex: Health is the absence of abnormality, the only way to know you are healthy is to become a customer.

Unfortunately nearly all of us are getting more and more medical stuff (imaging, drugs, surgery) done to us and yet we are often "no better off."   The most coherent and succinct discussion on this topic was by Dr. Welch in yesterday's New York Times.   Among the loud clamor surrounding healthcare reform we must as a nation come to a general consensus on what health means.  My current thoughts are if the insurance, pharmaceutical and hospital industries are supportive of a healthcare plan then we probably are doomed to have more of the same when it comes to ever increasing costs with minimal value in the U.S. healthcare industry.    

Tim