Why is an endless supply of health information actually making America sicker and poorer?
Because our public health agencies were built for unified press briefings, not algorithmic feeds.
Let's track a single piece of preventative guidance as it drops into a modern timeline.
Instantly competes with confident wellness influencers and aggressive pharmaceutical ads.
Behavioral science shows that when options multiply and credibility clashes,
decision-making simply paralyzes.
The public's willingness to follow evidence-based recommendations drops.
It's a structural mismatch.
Health institutions are trapped in slow, risk-averse review processes.
Unregulated voices are algorithmically rewarded for speed and emotional certainty.
This broken communication creates a massive, preventable financial burden.
When public confidence collapses, the downstream cost of treating the resulting emergencies
exponentially dwarfs the cost of proactive, coherent communication.
Health communication isn't just a medical issue.
It is vital economic infrastructure.
And investing in clarity is direct economic protection.
Human in purpose. Systemic in method.
Protective in outcome.