California's residents don't feel so good
"Medical care is the repair shop. It takes care of us once we get sick," said Dr. David Williams, staff director of the foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America. "If we are really interested in improving health, we need to look at what are the forces that drive health, and education and income would be at the top of the list
The basic crux of the article seems to be that the college-educated have the best health.
I wonder which way the cause-and-effect is.....?
If just the act of going to college improves your health, then I think that subsidizing college would readily pay off in reduced life-time health expenditures. [See! This is why we need single-payer health care, because no current health insurer would find it profitable to subsidize any education at any level.]
The article was based on this report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The higher the level of education, and the higher the income, the later couples have children. I wonder what that means in the long-term.....
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