“health” care
BBC NEWS | Americas | Obesity cost US $75bn, says study
That, combined with
This piece in the Atlantic, from last year's Real State of the Union
makes me wonder whether we should bother trying to improve health care at all. We all look for solutions ex post facto; gastric bypasses after the fact instead of getting off one's ass and walking beforehand. Botox after rather than sunscreen before. If we could get a generation to eat healthier and get more exercise, we'd radically decrease our health care costs… but we're Americans, and it's just not our way.