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By Steve Taylor and Daniela Capistran, Reporters
MCALLEN, Texas – Building more and more hospitals and training more and more doctors and nurses is not the answer, says Dan Buettner, Jr., chief development officer for Blue Zones.
Buettner was in the Rio Grande Valley last week to see if the cities of Edinburg, McAllen, Mission, and Pharr would benefit from the Blue Zones program. Leaders of those cities said “yes.” Now, Blue Zones and Methodist Healthcare Ministries are trying to get sponsors to help fund the program. They say the signs are encouraging.
The Rio Grande Guardian interviewed Buetter after he had given a presentation at McAllen Convention Center.
“We’re the most advanced nation that’s ever existed when it comes to health care and sick care, but we have worsening outcomes. We’re also the most overweight and obese. We’re the most chronically diseased. We have the highest rates of depression and isolation. So, we are spending 20% of our GDP every single year on sick care and we’re getting worse results,” Buettner told the Guardian.
“The reason for that is 90% of all healthcare spend in the United States is reactive. It’s waiting for us to get sick first and then treating the symptoms. The much better bang for the buck is on prevention is on delaying preventing or reversing chronic disease through healthier environments, healthier cultures, healthier lifestyles.”
One of the slides in Buettner’s power point presentation showed the savings that would accrue if the Valley’s population was healthier. The slide was reinforced by a brochure Blue Zones produced for attendees.
“The current well-being trends for the Rio Grande Valley create a high price for doing nothing differently,” the brochure states. “Blue Zones consehrvateily forecasts that over the next ten years, medical and lost productivity costs will increase annually by $7.1 billion, or 11.1 percent per year. Over the next decade, the Rio Grande Valley will insure a cumulative burden of $50.5 billion more in medical costs and $20.9 billion more in lost workforce productivity.”
Buettner told the Guardian: “The biggest line item for every American employer, for the American taxpayer, for the government is healthcare. We spend $5 trillion a year on healthcare. And our national spending budget year-over-year is $8 trillion. Households are the same thing. Medical bills are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy for the average American family. It’s medical bills. And that’s all driven by chronic disease and lifestyle related diseases like obesity and diabetes, So if you get a morbidity, the odds of getting a co-morbidity and spending a lot of money at the doctor’s office skyrockets.”
Here is a video recording of the interview with Buettner:
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