Recently, I've been doing so much research and analysis of advanced cancers, it struck me that we spend millions of dollars on healthcare at the end of life when it likely won't have much impact, yet the real change happens when we catch and treat, or preferably prevent, diseases such as cancer earlier.  This is not exactly rocket science.

Maybe we need a change in approach?

By that, I mean a greater focus on prevention, health and wellness rather than medicate and palliate end of life care.

How much of illness is as a result of poor body management, for want of a better term?  Obesity, cardiovascular disease, sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise all take their toll.

Most people don't do anything until a major wake-up call comes, but by then, it may well be too late do much.

What we need is a wellness model and people educating themselves to take better care of things earlier and having more responsibility for their choices.  After all, we can't expect an unlimited pot to be available at the end of the rainbow to cover the inexorable rising cost of treatment.  That's totally unrealistic and impractical.  

Eventually, the pot runs out and there is no more.

What then?