Richard Linchitz

Recent Activity

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  Richard signed the petition | 6 months ago

  Tell NYC Officials: Don't Decrease Charter School Space
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  Richard signed the petition | 6 months ago

  Stop Fluoridation in New York City
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  Richard signed the petition | 11 months ago

  Make Valuable Lab Tests Available in New York (Just Like the Other 49 States)
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  Richard commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Top 10 Health Care Online Videos

  Health care reform is a must but almost all of the discussion is misplaced.  The focus has always been on who is going to pay (single payer vs. multiple, etc.) or efficiencies (electronic v. paper, etc.) or fraud and abuse.  However, health care in this country will never be affordable until we change our system from a centralized "sick care" system directed by insurance companies or government and "big Pharma" and focused on symptom management with drugs, interventionist with expensive tests and surgery, to one which values the individual doctor-patient relationship and focuses on prevention and lifestyle change.  Drugs and surgery CANNOT make us truly healthy.  They can only cost the country a fortune to keep us alive.  True health can only come from changing our lifestyles to include real food (not the processed garbage relentlessly advertised by the food industry),  sensible exercise, stress management, avoiding toxins (pesticides, plasticizers, heavy metals, etc.).  Any attempt at reform which doesn't attempt to rein in the power of insurance companies (and yes even gov't bureaucracies), "big Pharma" and "big FOOD", is doomed to failure.  The doctor-patient relationship with payment for time to understand the individuality of the patient, medical education focused on nutrition instead of drugs, and reform of "big Pharma" and "big food" are the essentials of real change!