Health: Our Social Responsibility

Prevention of disease is an extremely complex and fundamentally challenging topic to broach, particularly in the United States.  In todays world, we continually search for instantaneous solutions to complex issues.  When sickness strikes, we look to doctors and pills as magic bullets for disease burden. When it comes to disease, we all want to believe that we're immune from any obtaining any sort of illness or horrific disease until we are in fact stricken. 

Despite this belief and regardless of genetics, diet, or otherwise no one is above illness.   This is why in order for the country to begin a transition period into a more socialized approach to health, we as citizens MUST take out a greater personal stake in our own health.   Health is something that must be continually strived for a daily basis. Expecting the government to implement a blanket health system and provide more preventive health measures is ludicrous considering we continue to maintain a lack of accountability in our own health (i.e. cigarette smoking, poor dietary patterns etc.). 

It is entirely ridiculous to say that the government should provide more preventive measures when we, ourselves, fail to take responsibility for our health.  Until a fundamental shift occurs in which we fully believe in the supreme autonomy and accountability of the human being, no "magic bullets" should be expected, nor deserved.