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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Anything you do in the schools is just treating a symptom not the disease.[/b] If you don’t fix the challenges facing the families it is just like bailing out a boat with a hole in the bottom. [/quote]

I don't know about your experience, but in my experience, treating the symptoms is often very helpful. For example: my neighbor had shingles, it was very painful, she got gabapentin, she felt better. Should the doctor have said, "No, I'm not going to prescribe anything, because it's just treating a symptom not the disease"? Of course not.[/quote]

If your neighbor had gotten their varicella vaccine or their shingles vaccine there would be no need for the visit or the gabapentin. See how that works. [/quote]

There was no varicella vaccine when my neighbor got chicken pix, and she did get the shingles vaccine. Also, do you think that the doctor should have said, "I'm not going to treat your symptoms because you should have gotten a vaccine"?[/quote]
DP.. also, not everyone can afford to get a vaccine. Average retail price is like $180, and not everyone has insurance.[/quote]

Jesus you people are literal but I’ll continue with the analogy. I’m not saying that we should abandon all treatment and while if you keep bailing out a sinking ship it won’t sink but it won’t sail well either so we as a nation need to do more than just keep putting cream on shingles patients but we need to figure out how to deliver the vaccine to everyone which is cheaper ultimately than continuing as is and just testing when people present with the symptoms. Kind of like giving a diabetic insulin but also providing a nutritionist for them to help them eat better and exercise. If we don’t look at providing a living minimum wage, health insurance affordable housing, food support and high quality day care we will keep spending money treating the same symptoms (violence, academic failure, broken families, teen pregnancy etc..) with no change in outcomes (ie the boat that won’t sink but also will not sail).[/quote]

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