Your Health This Economical Week

Uninsured Americans cost Medicare on average 51% more in medical expenses, compared people with insurance previous to the 65-year-old enrollment age. The majority of excess costs came from treatment for chronic conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, whose pricey ER treatment can largely be cut with preventative medicine earlier in life. If, like, they had some frickin’ health care.

Health researchers have often complained that shitty food (chips n’ candy) are cheaper than good foods (ie vegetables, whole grains and lean meats), meaning that poor people eat bad diets and end up with bad health. So why not just tax the crap food? A study from Oxford University suggests that a “fat tax” equivalent to the sales tax already paid on non-food goods (VAT) could cut 3200 deaths
from heart attacks/strokes per year.

OR…..you could just build some bigger grocery stores in poor areas what with their better selection of healthy meats and grains, and overall lower prices.

OR….you could stop subsidizing the production of high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soybean oil..

Tax-payers in the US are likely to pay a little bit more for the CDC’s service (including my favorite Death Map application) because $22 million in equipment has been tiefed.

A new bill signed into law on Friday will likely raise the cost of an abortion in Missouri, because people MIGHT HAVE TO CROSS STATE LINES TO GET ONE. Not to mention they are probably more likely to need one, because the same bill, which may force the closure of some Planned Parenthood clinics, bars educators from the organization from stepping inside classrooms or providing sex ed materials (because they could just be trying to drum up some abortion business). Cool.

Thinking of buying your kid a trampoline for her birthday? Shocked at the price of a stretchy plastic tarp and some steel coils? Well better factor in the price of an emergency room visit, too. ER visits due to tramp accidents rose 113% between 1990-95 and 2000-05.

Disclaimer: Inkling would like to remind you that this is a humorous column. Any suggestion that being really really rich is the only way to stay healthy and happy in America is obviously a total joke; actually it’s a malicious lie propagated by the goddamn Liberals.