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RHR: Three Reasons Why Conventional Healthcare Is Destined to Fail
Category: Health
Duration: 00:24:33
Publish Date: 2017-08-22 20:37:07
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In this episode we discuss:
  • What the healthcare debate isn’t covering
  • Reason #1: Our genes and our modern environment are out of sync
  • Reason #2: Our system is not designed for managing chronic disease
  • Reason #3: Our care model does not prioritize spending on diet and lifestyle interventions
  • We need a new model of healthcare
  • We need a new model of training
  • Introducing ADAPT Academy
Show notes:
  • My book Unconventional Medicine will be published on November 7th -- stay tuned for more updates.
  • The special launch pricing period is now over, but you can still enroll in ADAPT Academy here.
[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehealthyskeptic/RHR_Three_Reasons_Why_Conventional_Healthcare_Is_Destined_to_Fail.mp3" title="Three Reasons Why Conventional Healthcare Is Destined Fail" artist="Chris Kresser" ] Chris Kresser: I'm Chris Kresser and this is Revolution Health Radio. Hey, everybody, Chris Kresser here with another episode of Revolution Health Radio. We just released an episode a few days back, as I'm sure you know. But I wanted to get this one out to you more quickly than normal for a couple of reasons, which will be evident at the end of the show. This will be also a little bit different in that I'm not going to answer a listener question; I'm just going to talk to you about a topic that I'm really interested in, and I hope you are as well.

What the healthcare debate isn’t covering

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several months, you’ll know that healthcare has been a fevered debate between Republicans and Democrats over the last several months in the United States, and the debate has really revolved around whether we should keep the Affordable Care Act or whether we should get rid of that and possibly replace it with the Republicans’ proposed American Health Care Act, or AHCA. Just to be extra confusing, they named it something almost identical to the Affordable Care Act. The Democrats have argued that the Affordable Care Act—I think correctly—has insured a lot more people and led to some really important changes. Of course, the Republicans suggest that the Affordable Care Act has been a disaster, and it has actually increased premiums, and I'm sure you all know at least a little bit about the debate. But the problem is, in all of this debate, neither politicians nor the media acknowledges the real reasons that healthcare is really doomed in this country, and if that sounds like an exaggeration, I don't think it is,
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