Personal Responsiblitiy

This is exactly the issue, yet has been neglected.

I've been in practice for several years, and have seen the scourge of non-compliance and lack of personal accountability for healthcare. We can legislate all we want, it will fail to teach those who are unwilling to help themselves. From the wife on a smoking break waiting for her husband's lung cancer surgery to finish, to the heart bypass patient found in his hospital gown at the Krispy Kreme across from the hospital (true story), it becomes clear that many do not want to invest in their own health.


What do we expect though, with the example of our current smoking President? I sympathize with the addiction, yet what a role model he could be if he stopped.