Perché gli assicuratori sanitari non incoraggiano un'alimentazione più sana?

90 Risposte a “Perché gli assicuratori sanitari non incoraggiano un'alimentazione più sana?”

1. Always look forward to these videos! Excellent

2. Insurance is about profit. This is capitalism.

3. Diabetes and other diseases could be cured the problem is, there is a lot of money made selling drugs maintaining chronic conditions.

4. For the same reason, the US will not have a single payer insurance.

5. I linked to Kaiser Permanente's pamphlet on my go vegan page 🙂
   https://veganlinked.com/govegan/
   And of course the daily doesn't app and many other useful resources ♥

6. The ultimate goal is the maximizing of profit rather than creating and maintaining a healthy populace. As Wendell Berry once noted, 'People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.'.

7. I used to work for one of the top health insurance companies. The employees are physically and mentally ill and company functions were loaded with unhealthy food. Leaving was the absolute best move I made for my mental and physical well-being.

8. I actually never thought of it in the way Dr. Greger described here… the insurance company gets a piece of the pie, and the bigger the pie (created through increased rates to cover increased costs) means more profits for them. It is a sad state of affairs. Kuddos to Kaiser Permanente for its attempt to do better…

9. "Satisfying food" is true once you're used to it, but if WFPB was just as tasty as Doritos and Donuts, it wouldn't be so hard to get people to switch. Healthy food is objectively less tasty. I've seen it in my own parents, they literally can't imagine how I eat. It's a way of eating that is completely disconnected from the modern world (Impossible to eat WFPB in restaurants, for example, at least in my city).

10. danke

11. Capitalism doesn't work.

12. i dont see why they'd care too much : they just need to adjust theirs fees to match the risks. people have to buy insurance anyway or they are gonna be screwed someday.

    in the end they aint gonna spend a penny to make people healthier, that isnt what their objective is, but if people are healthier they wont lose profit either.

13. Thank you Dr Gregor. You have done more good for Americans than any other entity in America. You deserve a Nobel Peace prize!

14. That don’t encourage it coz ya mate bill gates don’t make money from it ya muppet

15. In our current financial environment, there are no incentives to promote healthy behaviors. Neither insurers nor physicians benefit financially if people don't need their services. The history of how we got to this point is fascinating, but needless to say, it is incumbent on individuals to take responsibility for their own health and this channel is playing a big role in that regard.

16. Obviously capitalism is the best system available.

17. Some plant based people are adamant that fat (including avocados and nuts) are unhealthy, so experts don’t agree (Sat fat also).

18. Physicians ain't nutritionist

19. Excellent video Dr. Gregor! More of the the dilussion, that the authority is looking out for the people. Corruption breeds more corruption!!!

20. Mine does. We even have bmi requirements to ensure lower cost sharing.

21. Let’s push for health insurance to cover Nutritionists and make Nutritionists a part of the AMA giving them the same level of expertise and education as a Primary Physician. Or require a nutritionist to be on staff with Primary Physicians. I ask my physician if he would do this. The look I got…….

22. 👍 #BoycottMeat and all other animal products of cruelty and exploitation in any way possible!

23. Been WPB for 2+ years, haven't got sick ever since.
    Dr. Greger, could you possibly do a video about the link between Alzheimer's desease and the consumpion of animal products, sugar and salt? Thank you so much, your content is amazing.

24. Funny conspiracy theory. Most people know what is healthy, But they prefer to eat delicious and not think about the future.

25. Just how many doctors KNOW anything about WFPB! Even at the best-rated Kaiser Hospital in San Rafael, Northern Calif, my husband and I were given awful nutritional advice by a bone doc, the OBGYN (pushing 4 glassed of cow milk a day), and 2 internists till we left in 2019. Were they at all interested in how we lost weight and kept it off, got off ACE inhibitors for BP, and looked a decade younger, and lost my eczema of 30 years? over the decade we independently learned about WFPB and watched at least an hour a day of dear Dr. Greger? No. Now in Central Florida, we are having a devil of a time finding WFPB-certified doctors!

26. Dr. Greger thank you for everything you do. "Ask your doctor if plants are right for you" that should definitely be an add playing before and after every YouTube video on every channel.

27. Medical insurance was already messed up…. But knowing they don’t want you to be healthy for profits is disturbing. I don’t want government healthcare, because the government is always fluctuating and can become corrupt… I wonder if there were more option to only have catastrophic emergency health care combined with competitive general medical care could work or a combination of all options? Idk… this is frustrating.

28. Our current heath insurance (Intermountain Healthcare) is actually trying at least somewhat to encourage better food choices and exercise. We engage in steps challenges and use the virgin pulse app to encourage better eating. Not perfect by any means but it’s a start.

29. Seeds are not healthy, plants don't want animals to kill their babies. While organic red meat is very healthy (plus ruminant animals fertilise soil for plants) and saved lots of ppl from food allergies. But your thesis is true. Even if you force only farming plants you stay with lots of land unusable by farming but useable by animals. Also you won't get high yields of plants if you don't herd animals there – that's the basic law of nature. Except if you promote chemicals, pesticides & GMO

30. "Why Don’t Health Insurers Encourage Healthier Eating?"

    Simple. Because of all the government over regulation of the industry, required coverages that aren't things that should be inside of an insurance plan, and now the ACA.

    If you "discriminate" premiums based on health markers that wouldn't be fair. Now days about the only things that they can ask you is age, sex, smoker or non-smoker, where you live.

    All you people that are unhealthy by choice, your welcome that my wife and I subsidize your health insurance premiums.

    Anyone else think it is unfair that if you are eating a very high whole plant diet, exercising most days of the week, don't smoke or drink, etc. that your premiums will be the same as the guy next door who is your same age, also a non-drinker and non-smoker, but is 85lbs overweight, doesn't exercise – less you count a raid with his guild in World of Warcraft as exercise, eats pizza and fast food for most of his meals, is on 4 different medications, has type II diabetes due to his diet, loves to have his pint of ice cream a couple nights per week and lastly, hooks up with his buddies four night per week at the local pub for three or four beers. But ok, his premiums are the same as yours even though he always hits his deductible every year and the insurance company pours money into the guy to keep him alive.

    This is like giving the kid who works his ass off in school, studies outside of school, gets all A's…and then there is the F student who does nothing but draws on his desk. Not fair so we are going to take 35% of your A and give it to the flunky and give you both a C. Also, when you both get into the work force. Same pay regardless of how much better your work is or how much more work you do than the flunky.

    Welcome to the world of the participation trophy. It will only get worse.

31. BTW you are mainstream. Don't fool anybody. In actual dietary board plantlovers are majority – they are anti-animals biased to begin with.

32. If everyone was healthy who would be making all the money? Let’s get rid of the middleman insurance companies

33. Thank you for your work.

34. Absolutely! 100% spot on.

35. It's changing, Mr Michael Greger – with great thanks to people like you.

36. Thank you, Doctor!

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38. My health insurance gives me a free gym membership at 24 hour fitness.

39. Ah, there he is again, Dr. Greger pushing one of his favorite drugs, illocor-B … 🥦👍😇

40. Good

41. Brilliant and hilarious! Also, a WFPB diet would be a lot more pleasant than swallowing pills!

    Everyone reading this who makes YouTube videos needs to make this commercial to broadcast on all social media! And, of course, link to the video above.

42. Why don't we see more advertising from the plant-based product companies? While this is not the ideal diet (too much salt & fat, for example), at least people will be on the right path.

    Great advertising pitch at the end, Dr. Greger!

43. Ask a doctor about plant based foods. Expect to be laughed about it… the doctor's don't know about it either!

44. Health insurance companies need to stop overcharging customers and start providing incentives to eat healthier and exercise regularly.
    Getting people to eat healthy and exercise would reduce health care costs and save the industry and Medicare billions.

45. Amen! Plant based diet works for me! Been plant based for over ten years now and I enjoy good health, healthy weight as well and I will be eighty in five months! No pills either! I credit regular exercise and my good diet 😊

46. Hospitals and schools should be places where good nutrition is taught and provided .
    It is crazy the hospitals are feeding people the very food that caused the heart disease, high blood pressure or cancer that they are treating. Every person in the hospital should receive some nutrition education before being released. Every doctor visit should be an opportunity to educate patients about how food choices impacts their health outcomes. The fact that doctors do not get nutrition training as part of their training makes no sense. Medicare and Medicaid should require nutrition education as part of patient care.

47. Doctors don't make money when their patients actually get healthy and no longer need them. And working for a large insurance company myself, I can attest that they have no interest in promoting plant-based diets to their associates or to their members 🤷🤦🤷

48. Everyone wants you sick but not dead!

49. Health care companies want us sick. They are vultures.

50. Back in 2016 I went to my family doctor with a nagging cough I had been suffering from for more than six weeks. I was referred to a lung specialist and told that the problem was not respiratory but digestive in nature. I was then referred to a gastroenterologist and sent for a gastroscopy procedure after which I was diagnosed with GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease). The gastroenterologist then prescribed a medication which gave me unreasonable side-effects such as dizziness, headaches, nausea and light headedness. After an episode of serious dizziness at work, I returned to the gastroenterologist to ask for an alternative prescription. At that time he explained that he could prescribe a diet but, in his words, "…they don't work" so he prescribed an alternative drug.

    When I returned to my local pharmacy to fill my second prescription (which cost $100.00+ each) the pharmacist said, "Weren't you here last week with the same prescription?" I replied that this was a different drug for the same ailment. She graciously responded by saying that chemically, the new prescription was essentially the same compound and only the brand name was different.

    I thanked her for saving me the money and side-effects and decided then and there that there must be an alternative to drugs. I began researching both GERD and plant based, whole food diets that eventually lead to NutritionFacts.org. That was five years ago. My GERD stopped being a health issue within 2 weeks of going vegan. I have been a fully plant based, whole food vegan for more than five years and have never looked back.

    Thanks Dr. Gregor, the information you provide is truly invaluable for every human being on earth and especially those of us who have knowingly being taken in by modern pharmaceuticals and the majority of "specialists" who put easy money before common sense and the welfare of their patients.

51. If you're aspiring to eat healthier and would like tips and guidance, check out our free email series: The Plant-Based Living Series (https://nutritionfacts.org/plantbased-living-series/) and Daily Dozen Digest (https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen/)

52. Heath insurance employee here… this is incorrect. If insurance company has to increase rates they’re more likely to lose the business to a competing company. Far more important to retain business than get a few extra percentage pts.

53. I believe we need to pursue a legal strategy. Class action lawsuits against medical organizations, medical groups, hospitals and insurers. All this must stop.

54. It's all about money is what I realized. The people in charge of healthcare want us to be sick so they can make money off of us

55. So what diet can turn-around long covid?

56. The health care system in America is a scam.

57. Diagnosed with T2D. Asked the doctor 'what do I do? how should I eat? what do I change?' His response? 'Let's not get into the weeds. Just take these two prescriptions.' Now, I can appreciate the need for pharmaceuticals to bring the blood glucose down right now and address the diet once the 'crisis' is abated. But every time I asked for nutritional advice or a referral for diet and something for the joint pain his response was 'we have to get the sugar under control first', which eventually included insulin. I should have left then and there but inertia being what it is…
    Got an appointment with a PA at the premier hospital in our area. She asked what I wanted to get from the visit. I said I wanted to reverse the T2D and joint pain. She smiled and said we will do that, as much as your body is able. I still tear up thinking of it. Within a week I had an appointment with a diabetes educator (T1 himself), a nutritionist (vegetarian) and a referral to a rheumatologist. All of them have one goal-to see me as little as possible.
    Don't accept substandard care. Educate yourself and trust your instincts. Medicine is a noble profession but not all doctors are worthy. The PA, educator and nutritionist did more for me in a week than that doctor did in three years. And he's a DO! He's no better than the pill pusher who tried to give my mother diet pills and downers in the 70s. He was either criminally uneducated or just stringing me along for the health insurance payments.
    Lost a bunch of weight, my inflammation markers are normal/undetectable and my a1c is 5.4. Still on some meds and I have a way to go but now I have the tools and support to heal myself as much as is possible.
    Blessings to Dr. Greger, his colleagues, and all like-minded health professionals.

58. this is where the medical field has to start rethinking what exactly they are doing………and they should view themselves more as coaches rather than the be all and end all of medical knowledge…..and perhaps if they feel they need to prescribed drugs for these chronic conditions, they could also work with their patient to get them OFF these drugs…….meaning, they should start endorsing the whole food plant based diet concept……especially for these cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes ailments….

59. It’s the monetary system that itself that’s the problem! Time for a Resource Based Economy where the earths resources are the common heritage of all the people without money, debt, servitude or trade. Research the Venus project, Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows.

60. Processed foods, sugar, and large intake of carbs produce dis-ease.

61. Reminds me of the question… why do hospitals feed patients known to cause disease and reduce health outcomes?

62. i love you man , keep it Up i’m seriously want to be vegan after i know you and knowing your channel in youtube.

63. Agreed. A lot of chronic illnesses could be fixed with diet and exercise. And the health insurance companies still would have people like me (congenital heart disease, born with it) to spend large amounts of money on. But if the person could have their issues reversed through diet and exercise, that should be the first line of defense. Medication to supplement it, to at least until problems get better on its own. Though, no matter how much healthy eating and exercise I do, my heart still will suck and I will need specialists. Though I do eat a mainly whole food plant based diet to help mitigate any future potential heart related issues. Or at least ones that would be diet related. Not sure how much it actually is helping but keeping my cholesterol and blood sugar super low is probably helping something. Thankfully, my congenital adult cardiologist knew about plant based diets and was super happy when I told her that I didn't eat meat/dairy/eggs and minimal processed foods.

64. I am sure the Meat and Dairy industries are against single payer healthcare because without a profit motive, the fact that whole food plant based diets are better for you would be pushed hard by the bean counters.

65. My insurer Aetna gives me a $300 gift card a year to spend on healthy food. No chips and soda.

66. The fear of a "dictatorial communist regime" that would "force people to eat certain foods" and "take away personal freedom" is the main force of capitalism. "You shall not break my democracy!" they'd say. And they force this view to all countries in the world… Those who oppose… You know what happens.

67. Follow the money.
    Big pharma and the rest of them push their agenda.

68. Collecting a monthly premium without having to pay hardly anything should be good for the insurers and their employees.

69. What a horrible idea to make the primary purpose of hospitals to make money rather than helping people.

70. There’s no money in it.

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72. The difference here is that Kaiser saves money if you don't get sick and it actually costs them more if you do get sick. At least until you reach Medicare age. At that point they can pass expenses off to the government and make more money the sicker you are.

73. 2:18 even if they knew. I suspect most Americans would rather suffer from those chronic health conditions than significantly change their diet.

74. I still don’t completely understand why the insurance companies wouldn’t profit from having healthier customers who need less medical care. I thought the more customers who were healthy, the better the profits. The reason coverage used to be denied for certain preexisting conditions. I don’t really understand all this with the explanation Dr. Greger gave. I would love if there was a video on a fuller explanation of this. Thank you.

75. nice!

76. If health insurers were required by law to bundle in disability and life polices, it would go a long way toward changing their emphasis to healthy lifestyles.

    But I’d be happy just to have Health Care Insurance disconnected from employment, and allowed to sell across state lines. Right now we have the worst attributes of government run and privately run insurance.

77. Sugar, seed oils, cocaine (extracts from plants) cause severe health problems while nothing from animal based nutrition is unhealthy.

78. I don't know how true this really is. Insurance companies like BCBS subsidize gym memberships and have advice on what kind of foods people can eat to be healthier.

79. What's wrong with a whole food animal based diet? Oh ya money, the govt and economy makes more money with plant based diets thru variety, sides, etc

80. So, if I can summarize: The health industry is corrupted by profits and thereby keeping America sick. Typical third-world, banana republic BS that America has become,

81. Been surviving in a mostly unprocessed food/plant based diet for decades….only medical problems I’ve had were cataracts (age related) and my dental fillings installed (as a child) degrading. 64 years young perfect body weight and swim a mile 4-5 days a week. But working at the produce department in a grocery store I get to see first hand what people buy….lots of sugary drinks, chips etc

82. I don't want insurance companies dictating my behavior, furor.

83. Health insurance is a financial scheme, it has nothing to do with health and should be called illness insurance.

84. I am vegan, and last weekend had a dinner with friends, we spent like 4h discussing that a plant-based “is not a healthy diet” they are people with studies, but none of them recognize their addiction to animal food…and none of them will ever change their diet…so sad.

85. I am vegan, and last weekend had a dinner with friends, we spent like 4h discussing that a plant-based “is not a healthy diet” they are people with studies, but none of them recognize their addiction to animal food…and none of them will ever change their diet…so sad.

86. I am vegan, and last weekend had a dinner with friends, we spent like 4h discussing that a plant-based “is not a healthy diet” they are people with studies, but none of them recognize their addiction to animal food…and none of them will ever change their diet…so sad. Of course all of them are fat AF and i do exercise everyday i have 10% body fat and they keep insisting that is not a viable diet no matter what argument you put on the table.

87. WHY ISN’T EVERYTHING FREE???

88. Americans do, in fact, know that they need to eat healthier and they know what to eat to eat healthier. The problem is, they refuse to change their lifestyle. They still want their so-called good tasting foods and they're willing to put up with obesity and all the diseases that stem from that.
    Easier to take a pill than have to change your lifestyle. That pill will never come. And they simply will not change their lifestyle at this point.

89. In Sweden, where I live, my doctor actually prescribed the mediterranean diet when I was signed out after a stroke. A step in the right direction, although I have leaned more into plant based this last year.

90. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food….Hippocrates.

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