Here is something that bothers me and you should be aware of. In the last 30 some years the U.S. has spent Billions of dollars in medical research and improved health care and what have we got for it? Ill give the numbers from the chart below incase you cant read them, but basicly it says that we are dieing at a higher rate of the same things that we were dieing from 30 years ago. Why? I think it is a reasonable question.
The Green Section is Heart Disease it has droped from 37.8% to 27.2% thats a little better. No not really while death relating to Heart Disease has decreased Heart Disease itself has gone up. We have just learned to keep ourselfs alive.
The Red Section is Cancer it has increased from 19.2% to 23.1% this is not good.
The Brown Section is Chronic Lung Disease has jumped from 2.3% to 5.1% now at first that number does not seem to be large but realize that is over 100% increase.
The Yellow Section is Accidents this has gone down from 5.4% to 4.7% not a great number but an improvement at first glance. Till you realize that the number of product liability law suites has gone way up. That tends to make people make safer products like airbags.
The Purple Sections is labeled as Other, while we have been able to curb the fatal effects of heart disease we have found other ways to kill ourselfs (aids, west nile, other) jumping from 22.0% to 31.2%.
So why are we still on the rise of Cancer and Lung Disease with the billions of dollars being spent what are we getting for our money. Stay tuned for my thoughts on why.