You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.