Comment by pascalxus
8 years ago
The same thing happens with our health. People would rather spend trillions of dollars on health care, rather than start eating healthy. 70% of all healthcare dollars go towards diseases and causes of death that are lifestyle related causes (eating, nutrtion, excercise, smoking, etc)
Well, as for the excessive spending, there is also the fact that healthcare is basically a parallel to the military industrial complex (doctors, hospitals, insurers, drug companies) especially conducive to oligarchy/monopoly-like behavior.
Paradoxically enough (but not so much if you think about it a while), a review of patient mortality rates during doctor's strikes found that mortality decreased when doctors were on strike.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849101