Well, I don't know about you, but the latest way Americans who I know are often taking care of themselves is through "self-diagnosis" and "self-medication", or they just hope and pray that they "get over it".

The senators go to doctors and the president goes to doctors, but Americans are going less and less often because they cannot afford it, EVEN IF THEY HAVE INSURANCE.

Even people who pay for and have health insurance are reaching the point that they cannot afford to go to the Dr. because deductables are so high. An average family pays a huge amount of money for their health insurance, in comparison to what they make, and then they have to pay a large amount to meet the deductable. Usually, you don't meet the deductable in order to get full coverage so it's useless. You just pay, pay and pay. SO, when you get a prescription for an antibiotic, if for some reason someone doesn't completely finish it " you put it back in the medicine chest "for an emergency".

So what people do is look in their medical cabinet for medicine that they can use. "Oh, look, here are 5 amoxicillin tablets that haven't expired that someone didn't finish. Definitely don't want to throw that away !! Somebody might need it !!" That's the state of the health care millions of Americans are experiencing and with the direction they're taking us, it's only going to get worse. MUCH WORSE.