Obese Spend More On Health Care-Is This A Suprise For Anyone?
Article on the NY Times today about the rise of spending on health care of obese people. Quoted from the article : “Obesity, and with it diabetes, are the only major health problems that are getting worse in this country, and they’re getting worse rapidly,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C., said.” Gee, I wonder if slurping down those cokes and Slurpee’s have anything to do with it.
The disconnect American’s have with this condition is incredible. We don’t have a national health care crisis, we have a national eating crisis. You won’t see any be discussions on this up on Capitol Hill however. This is way to close to special interests. Don’t want to kill the Golden Goose. Instead we are going to “reform” health care. And spend a trillion dollars doing it while running our country into debt it will never recover from.
