I've been casting about for ways of reframing our language relating to the health care system, and come up with "Disease Industrial Complex." If we look at things from this perspective, the DIC is a very efficient process, efficiently absorbing an ever increasing percentage of our gross national product. This industry has little to do with health - its all about disease, how to categorize it, and how to sell things to fix it.

 

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This Uplift Academy theme explores the "positive flip" to Creating an Epidemic of Health instead of "fixing the health care system." Heather Wood Ion is the theme leader.

It will also serve as a repository for the work done on the Vvaleo Initiative. (photos)

 

This is an article that appeared in the August, 1995 US Medicine Magazine, "Creating an Epidemic of Health with the Internet" by Tom Munnecke and Heather Wood Ion

“It is possible to create an epidemic of health,” said Jonas Salk. The convergence of the Internet, global communications, and medical technology have created an environment from which dramatic new advances in health care and enhancement may emerge.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a real-world example of network abundance. It is based on a notion that members can help maintain their sobriety by helping others stay sober. The more members it has, the greater its capacity to help even more members. Over time, it has evolved to address other addictive problems as well. It charges no dues, takes no names, generates no transactions, so it is flies completely "under the radar" of the transactional model of health care.