Medical doctors are reporting that patients are putting off preventive healthcare during the recession—things like blood cholesterol checks, colonoscopies and management of high blood pressure.
Putting off medical care is a bad idea.
If your car battery died, you’d put out the money to fix that. But your body is more valuable than your car.
A good sign is that a recent survey suggests many Americans are trying to improve their health and manage stress by joining health gyms. Membership in gyms increased the last quarter of 2008 and modest growth is forecast fro this year.
If you do have to see a medical doctor you might be able to negotiate prices. Some medical practitioners are allowing their customers who have lost their medical insurance to continue health care by offering healthcare credit cards that carry no interest and no payments for one year.
