Innovation in health care that reduce costs

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Rizal Philippines
March 15, 2016

There was interview at CCTV today about innovations that lower health care costs. For instance there is a company in Mexico that was able to successfully lower diabetic care cost from $10,000 to only $2,000!!

                           From health affairs

Most of the innovations we know result in higher cost of health care cost:   new equipment, new drugs new processes.  Which deplete health insurance funds, and make the treatment inaccessible.

The classes of innovation:

1.   new products
2.  new processes
3.  substitutions

Coupled with these are the concerns on regulation, tax policy, and the health insurance practices
and reduction of waste, fraud, admin complexity, excessive prices

How much can be saved?

Some great valuable medicinal food from the Philippines

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Rizal Philippines
March 12, 2015

I was discussing with some friends from the province and discussed some great products from coconut:

1.  Virgin coconut oil - good for many ailments, good for keeping skin protected from UV rays and when drank (1 tsp a day) by the elderly helps prevent the onset of Alzheimer.  It is so easy to produce and and can help many coconut farmers.

10 Health Benefits of VCO from Authority Nutrition

Some of the noted benefits:

1.  Lowers cholesterol levels
2.  Those who have coconut as part of their diet are some of the healthiest people in the world;
3.  Can reduce seizure in epileptic children
4  Effective sunscreen
5  Helps you burn more fat
6.  Stave off hunger
7.  Helps reduce abdominal fat,, the most dangerous of all surface fats
8.  Has anti bac and fungal properties

Reuse of pet plastic bottles for water storage and liquor can be toxic

Live healthy and long

Rizal Philippines
February 7, 2016

                                                 In glass and 90% proof, 9x distilled

Why is alcohol sold in glass and not in plastic bottles?

From Rappler - Lakan super premium Lambanog 90 proof

On my bike rides I have seen outlets of lambanog and the very potent lambanog (what 90% proof?) are stored and sold in pet bottles (of water)  Now I  have learned that PET bottles and plastics emit hazardous vapor and chemicals  ((ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid) which has the tendency to leach to considerable extent if alcohol i that are bad for the health.

It could be that the lambanog has methanol, the dangerous alcohol.  The ethanol is the good alcohol.

Would that practice be not dangerous?  I have advised the seller to sell the same in recycled bottles made of glass.

What do you think?

                                    Lambanog in Tiaong Quezon practices food safety are in glasses,
                                     Tuba is in plastic bottles

Lambanog could be a $1billion export industry and gives rebirth to the ailing (senile) coconut industry.  All ready, buko juice is making waves as a sports drink in the west.   This will give more jobs to mangangarit, coconut growers and distillers

A mgangarit could earn as much as P500.00 per day, a coconut farmer supplying coconut flower nectar for lambanog export could up the income of coconut farm from P30,000 a year (for supplying copra) to P300,000 (ten fold increase to lambanog export.

From Business Inquirer - Lakan Lambanog, the Philippine export drink for nobility

                                            Distilled 4 to 6 times from nectar of coconut flower

                               Jenny and Tony Manguiat, the brains behind the Lakan Lambanog,
                               /adviser is Lawrence Lim, the Lambanog king