The more the government does, the sooner we die

[primroselane]

"Many of the longest lives in Texas are lived in an unlikely place: along the state’s impoverished border with Mexico. Despite conditions that often have the opposite consequences — desperately low incomes, a widespread lack of health insurance and poor rates of high school graduation — the predominantly Hispanic residents of Hidalgo County live on average to be 80, two years longer than the United States or Texas averages. Residents of other Texas border counties live similarly long lives,

The region’s health care providers argue that a long life should not be mistaken for a healthy life."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/us...html?ref=texas

I suppose that likewise, according to government thinking, neither should a short life be mistaken for an unhealthy life.

[Tricky Grama]

Interesting.
I suppose, even w/all the gov't 'help' mostly we are controlled by genetics.
Have a life-long friend who's DH just had a heart attack. Tall, thin, active, eats healthy. He's ok, had the stent, and know what? his DB had one age 29! Sometimes it doesn't matter much.

[primroselane]

If you are working but financially dysfunctional and don't have health insurance you have to take better care of yourself because you can't afford to get sick. If you have medicaid or a cadillac plan, you can let yourself go and wallow in the attention of all sorts of health care professionals.

Additionally, for a small but growing percentage; health care kills.

[Wolf mom]

Actually, primroselane, it's in the water......

Your last post needs to be supported with some facts in order to be at all believable. .