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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (3117)	12/7/2007 7:42:25 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<In other words, instead of lowering hospitalisations and costs, the international evidence shows that better co-ordinated primary care uncovers new cases requiring hospital treatment.>>> If you take that finding to a logical conclusion, you could say that if you take away health care altogether you would lower health care costs.

To: TimF who wrote (3117)	12/7/2007 11:28:15 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Kids life expectancy It's an issue which should weigh heavy on parents across the country. For the first time since the civil war, the life span of the average American is expected to drop. Doctors say the reason is childhood obesity. "It's one thing for an obese 45 year old to develop type 2 diabetes at age 55 and then have a heart attack at the age of 65," said Dr. David Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston. "It's a very different thing for the clock to start ticking at age ten." In a shocking report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Danish researchers link high body mass index at ages 7-13, to the development of heart disease in adulthood. "This generation of children, due to high prevalence of obesity, is in store for a massive increase in heart disease when they become adults," Dr. Ludwig said. In the U.S., each generation has enjoyed the expectation of living longer and healthier lives, thanks to the introduction of antibiotics and then immunizations. But for the first time since the civil war, life expectancy is predicted to drop an average of 2-5 years. And the main reason is obesity. "For life expectancy to be limited not by having too little to eat but too much to eat is unprecedented in the history of our species," Dr. Ludwig said. That's why it's so important for parents and healthcare workers to help in the battle against childhood obesity. Researchers took the number of overweight teens in the year 2000 and used a computer model to predict their health as adults. It showed almost 40 percent of males and more than 40 percent of females will be obese by age 35 and are expected to have more chest pain, heart attacks and be at a greater risk of death because of it. (Copyright (c) 2007 Sunbeam Television and The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)