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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: dybdahl who wrote (18548)	7/31/2010 1:40:20 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

because they have no perceived costs when eating the chocolate bar, while it should be the other way around. I think most people perceive the costs (insignificant to zero from a single chocolate bar, but possible major if it becomes a staple of your diet), they just also perceive the short term reward rather strongly in many cases. If a country wants to improve the national health statistics, there is no way around nannyism. I don't think that's true. If it was than I'd say that the country shouldn't try to improve the national health statistics, except maybe in cases when the most minimal level of nannyism promoted the strongest and most certain health benefits. But I don't think that can happen that way too often. People are resistant to imposed changes on their habits so the nannyism might be strong, also governments often promote questionable health ideas (sometimes even known at the time to be questionable, perhaps more often discovered to be questionable later), so strong and certain improvement is perhaps doubtful.

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