On 11-Mar-2004,
[email protected] wrote:
> >If you define your health by the amount of dollars in
> >your pocket, you are missing the boat.
>
> Huh?
>
> I was just making a simple point that vitamins/supplements
> are not *necessarily* more cost effective than
> prescription medicines in response to *your* suggestion
> that they are.
I think cost goes beyond simple dollars. It includes not
only financial burden, but mental burden and physical burden
that one must endure to fight this disease. It also takes
personal time, which is costly, to understand the disease.
Complication from therapy is 'costly' too.
>
> Do you think that the "holier-than-thou" tone in some of
> your posts is helpful?
No. It has not been my intention to have such an attitude
and in fact I deplore it. I would like you to give me some
suggestions on how I can improve my tone. I also want to
thank you for bringing this to my attention. You are not the
first one to comment on this issue, btw.
>I really don't think I'm missing any boat.
I am sorry for this flipant remark, and in the rush to
complete some of these posts, quickly responded without
giving much thought to how it may be interpreted. This is
not a personal attack on you, but to address a terrible
frustration of mine when I see patients choose their
insurance formulary (that is determined in part by lobbying
efforts of pharma) over a better choice that is not on their
formulary. For an additional 30 dollars a month (for
example), a patient may have less cost in the long run, such
as lower complication rates, better efficacy, and most
importantly, better physical and mental health. Add to this
the constant change in formulary from year to year, and the
'cost' patients must endure over time with additional tests,
visits, and complications to change to the new formulary.
Your health is a wonderful gift, and something to be
cherished. The politics of medicine run very very deep, and
are quite disturbing. It would be a lot simpler to pretend
it isn't a problem.
>
> L.
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