Being American Is Bad for Your Health By Marty Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School “Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy nations.” That stark sentence appears in…
There’s a Direct relationship between poverty, obesity, and the cost of health care. Here’s some statistics, mostly from the 2010 census: 15.1% of Americans (46.2 million) live in poverty, including 22% of our children. 20% live in extreme…
The Patient Accountability and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a reasonable first step in health reform, but much more needs to be done. That’s primarily because Obamacare is still dependent on health insurance, which turned health…