ABSTRACT
Healthcare insurance has permitted many to understand healthcare as not just an emergency matter only needed when one is suffering, but also as something that entails check-ups, routine care, and preventative tests. The National Prevention Strategy and the funding of the Prevention and Public Health Fund clearly document the move from seeing healthcare as a matter of the ill toward the idea that it is about the well. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cited concerns the fairness of incentive programs under the American with Disabilities Act. Health problems associated with alcohol are more complex to analyze than cigarettes since, unlike cigarettes, it is not, ceteris paribus, always bad for the individual’s well-being. Ehrenreich and Jain argue against such childish mythical thinking and argue for real approaches to cancer treatment. S Lochlann Jain notes that if people turned our attention away from “hope” and made inroads into combating the environmental causes of cancer they could do better for others.
