Healthy Wealthy

There is this common saying that ‘health is wealth’. I am sure that most, if not all, would agree to the truth of this statement. For a parent like me, we could only be thankful to God as each member of the family is blessed with good health.

Though in today’s times when there are a lot of factors which potentially promote ill health, trying to keep healthy does come with a price. Just recently, we received a letter from our health insurer that our monthly premiums will rise. And if my memory serves me well, we have been getting this letter quite consistently over the past few years. I tried comparing across several options but I guess it is not surprising for me to look first at the benefits/services over the costs or (small) savings when selecting another health care provider.

Everything relating to health does seem to increase in price. Apparently, this is the same reason for which the health funds increase health insurance premiums. The increasing cost of keeping ones health extend to both services and products. One does not need to keep a log to notice the price of medicines (or simply that bottle of vitamins) go up. Though in terms of pharmaceutical products, retail competition somewhat help in getting some sanity on the sky rocketing prices. It is interesting how in the past few weeks I have seen several chemist shops advertising that they are they have the lowest price in Sydney. Online options (like canadian pharmacy) are able to get some wins since they are able to flex their competitive prices. Of course, the promotion of generic medicine also keep health more affordable.

The bottom line is that everyone is simply trying all available means to be health. All of these attest to the fact that health is priceless.