We have disease-care not healthcare

The system we call healthcare is really disease-care. It manages disease, ususally in a very expensive way, instead of treating the whole person and maintaining his or her health. There are many health practitioners who manage health successfully, but their services are seldom covered by "healthcare" plans.

When Barack Obama campaigned in Chester County the weekend before the primary, one of our own, a West Whiteland precinct 1 Democrat, talked with the campaign and explained to them the difference between healthcare and disease-care.

Barack is now using the phrase "we don't have healthcare, we have disease-care" in his campaign speeches.

This is proof that we can have an impact on politics. There is hope for change.