Ulterior Motives

How goals, both seen and unseen, drive behavior.

by Art Markman, Ph.D.

Health and insurance and politics and behavior

By Art Markman, Ph.D. on November 19, 2009 in Ulterior Motives

This post will make you uncomfortable. You should read it anyway.

I'm going to talk about health behaviors and dangerous diseases. And we don't like to think about disease and death, and so we avoid it. Read More

Health and...

Submitted by Anonymous on November 19, 2009 - 4:31pm.

Yes responsibility lies with all of us, not just the health care system.

Let's cast a larger net here.

1) One can be an MD and not know anything about health. Treating disease is not the same thing as understanding all the emotional, psychological, spiritual, physical/biological/chemical aspects that
go into "health"

2) Health prevention is tricky. It is essential and at the same time focusing with fear on what we don't want often brings about the very thing we don't want, that's a basic life principle.

So prevention is a key to good health and at the same time can foster
health problems depending on the mindset behind it.

Lastly everything is rationed we just don't want to admit it with health because of fear of death and the tendency to want to blame others or society for our ills.