Given that we all want health and spend trillions to “care” for it, it’s sobering how little thought we give to its true meaning. When I ask, the response I receive is typically “the absence of disease.” Health is much more interesting and consequential than this. To define it in this negative sense is no more accurate than to define wealth as the absence of poverty.

via Dr. Andrew Weil: The Question No One Asks About Healthcare.

I don’t live in the US, have only second-hand knowledge of how their health care system works (or, it seems, doesn’t). But this was an interesting viewpoint. If the numbers in the article are right, and I have no reason to doubt them, it’s astonishing.

via Dr. Andrew Weil: The Wrong Diagnosis. (From the Huffington Post)