If this country had any health care worth a damn:
1. Many cases of reflux are linked to hiatal hernia. Fix the hernia and the reflux goes away. But a bottle of pills is much cheaper.
2. Lose 20-or more pounds and the reflux often goes way or gets better. Treat obesity.
3. Don’t eat 1/2 a pizza before going to bed and you won’t wake up with what seems like beans in you mouth in the middle of the night. Target behaviors that make the condition worse.
We in the US spend MOST of our money in health care on diseases which folks have brought on themselves through obesity, bad diets, bad eating habits, sexual behaviors, drug use, lack of movement, smoking, excessive drinking, ignoring what was a smaller condition until it became a huge problem.
Most of the reflux is behavior based. Almost all your HIV is behavior based, so is syphilis, clamidia, ghonnoria... much of you cardio vascular disease, diabetes, kidney, lung/COPD, are behavior based. The reason we’re not getting older isn’t how much we spend on health care, but rather how we choose to live our lives.
But, in the meantime, we get our solutions from geniuses like Chris Christie, a human tub of lard. He won’t address the std problem as he promotes the populist LGBTQIA agenda, wants more socialized health care, bla bla bla.
Good post. See my post 42.