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

To: Road Walker who wrote (14392)	3/11/2010 4:04:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

What specific policy do you think will spend only a little and get terrific results? And not just terrific results, but sticking to the point, results that will have a serious impact in terms of reducing health care spending in this country. I don't see any. I haven't even seen an idea that is remotely plausible along these lines. Not some possibly good idea that's out there that I'm skeptical about or think will fail, just no good ideas. Obesity is a good example. Most people who are seriously overweight realize that their are likely health consequences. A few don't care much (good luck reaching them). Most do care (if perhaps not as much as some people think they should). Those are the people you have to work with. They know that being seriously overweight, they care about that issue, but they don't change anyway. They like their chocolate, or cheesecake, or double burgers, or large pizzas, or they have ingrained hard to change habits in terms of exercise or overall level of eating. If it was easy to change these habits why wouldn't they have done so already? Remember they already know the problem, and they already care about it. Or is it that your really think that most people don't know that being 60 lbs overweight isn't healthy?