[Angostura]

> Doctors won't say there's a problem until you're SICK and usually pretty late in the process when there's not a lot of room to make improvements.

As someone who is fit and active,in their 60s with zero obvious symptoms, but is nonetheless on cholesterol and blood pressure medication, this isn't true (in the UK, at least)

[pjc50]

One of the things the NHS does surprisingly well, and is only really possible because it's a completely vertically integrated system, is population-level preventative medicine. Distributing insulin and salbutamol. Screening for various sorts of cancer. Cholesterol and BP checks. Encouraging people to stop smoking.