Comment by camel_gopher
9 months ago
Tl;dr be affluent enough to be able to afford great medical care and have enough free time for preventative actions
9 months ago
Tl;dr be affluent enough to be able to afford great medical care and have enough free time for preventative actions
Walking and eating sensibly is free. Even a balance oatmeal, rice & beans with infrequent meat servings would defend against heart disease better than expensive medicine, at less than $1 / day.
Lentils/legumes are cheap. There is probably no better bang for the buck. Yogurt is also cheap.
Funny you should use the word "bang". My last experiment with lentils years ago began one evening with 3 excellent bowls of very tasty lentil soup and ended slowly with 2 days' worth of "bangs", quickly followed by ostracism by my house buddies. So bad!
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Agree. All the best foods are cheap. It’s a myth that healthy food is expensive. Most of the produce isle is decorative.
Promoting good habits is good but this is health advice from an unlicensed commenter to say rice and beans is better than taking a statin. Consult your doctor if you’re curious what to do.
It’s safer than taking unlicensed tech advice from an Internet forum
Most people aren't on and don't need statins. Everyone would be well served to eat well and exercise regularly. It's not a replacement.
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And not smoking or drinking saves you money!
Yes, our system is most definitely stacked against the poor, but it's important to also remember that we all have free will and that some choices fully within our power are much better than others.
nicotine is likely one of the best appetite-control , cognative-enhancing and anti-anxiety medications ever known to man. A large driver of obesity , anxiety and psychotropic abuse was smoking cessation.
Giving out nicotine gum , would decimate the drugs industry, but likely resolve a lot of our chronic health and depression issues.
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I think the point is it is cheap to prevent. The weird tip is doing a different test to the standard one, which costs little for typical HNers (but admit every $ counts for many people esp. with current inflation, poverty, bad governance) but sounds like on par with a dentist doing anything beyond a checkup.
A colleague of mine was a vegan, took care of himself, still died of pancreatic cancer. It is what it is.
90 day supply of Atorvastatin costs $10. Running costs a pair of shoes.
You have to be able to get the prescription. HMOs (Kaiser specifically) will generally not provide any sort of preventative care in this area unless your numbers are very high. You can’t get access to a cardiologist unless you’ve already had an adverse event.
If you can get time off work and have a PPO, you can get the preventative care.
$10 is the cash price. Your doctor diagnoses, not insurance, and you don't need a specialist to get diagnosed regardless of what your insurer wants. Even a nurse practitioner can prescribe you a statin.
You should try www.betterbrain.com/insurance! It covers this set of bloodwork and 92% of covered patients pay $0