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Vague Promises Of Savings From Cutting Waste, Enhancing Prevention And Wellness, Installing Electronic Medical Records And Improving Quality Are Merely ‘lipstick’ Cost Control, More For Show And Public Relations Than For True Change... Savings Will Require Changing How Doctors Think About Their Patients: Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously, “as An Imperative To Do Everything For The Patient Regardless Of The Cost Or Effects On Others.

The President Recognizes That Funding Global Health Is Good For National Security, Domestic Health And Global Diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama Has Steadily Increased Funding For The President's Emergency Plan For Aids Relief, Or Pepfar, Which Was Created By President Bush And Has Strong Bipartisan Support.

We All Focus On Health Care And Diabetes And Heart Disease But There's All Sorts Of Things Like The Simple Fact That, You Know, Heavier People, Transportation Is More, So There's More Spent On Gasoline, More On Jet Fuel, People Have Had To Change The Size Of Doorways, The Size Of Chairs On Airplanes And At Sports Stadiums, So There's A Lot Of Hidden Costs As Well To The Increasing Girth Of Americans.

Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously, As An Imperative To Do Everything For The Patient Regardless Of The Cost Or Effects On Others

When My Children Were Growing Up, We Began Every Family Meal - Which Included Breakfast And Dinner Every Day - With A Prayer. We Are Jewish And So It Was The Prayer Over Bread, When We Were Having Bread, Or The Catch-all Prayer For Everything When We Weren't.