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Spirit of Health
NEWS
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In Australia, $70B of public money is poured down the
medical-pharmaceutical black hole every year - and the
health of Australians is getting worse.
Few people know what to do about it, least of all
our governments or the medical industry. If they did, costs
would be coming down, people would be fit and healthy. Doctors and pharmacists would be sitting around
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Government protection of the medical industry has been spectacularly
unsuccessful in halting the decline of health standards.
Now,
ideally people can chose to keep themselves in what ever shape they
like, providing they're prepared to pay for the cost of the upkeep.
In the
current distorted medical market, most people, regardless of the shape
they're in expect someone else to foot the bill for their body
maintenance. Of course this doesn't include those who do spend a bit of
time, effort and money keeping themselves in good shape.
Nevertheless, because of this distortion of the market, when it comes to
paying the cost of people being in poor shape, governments and employers
are sitting ducks.
Organisations are going to the wall propping up archaic worker's compensation
schemes.
That is
unless they get on the front foot and do something about it.
There are companies who've finally realized that they need to do more than give
lip-service to confronting the illhealth epidemic in the
workplace, who are moving heaven and earth to encourage their
staff to keep
themselves fit and healthy to the best of their ability -
healthy workplace, healthy people.
So, to cut a long story short, make a decision; bite the bullet.
Putting
safety first and health last is not giving adequate
recognition to the seriousness of the poor health epidemic in
our work places.
Whilst a dead heat would seem to be a satisfactory compromise,
start putting health first.
Watch this space.
BEACONSFIELD BLOW OUT
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During the layabout following the Beaconsfield mining
disaster, miners have been meeting up at the Tamar Hotel
in Launceston every day for lunch. The favourite fare is said to
be a round of schnitzel, chips and gravy washed down
with half a dozen Cascades.
The mine is getting safer but the workers are getting
decidedly fatter.
It is understood that the ropes on the cage have had to
be replaced in anticipation of the extra load.
A reader sent in this snap of a miner at the
intersection of Tamar and West streets on his way home.
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In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and remember, not many
people every got fitter or healthier in a surgery or a pharmacy.
John Miller
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