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from:msnbc.comWhere you live plays a role in your health, and a new report that ranks health factors in each of the nation's 3,000-plus counties promises to point local policymakers to ways they can help.
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"The least healthy counties tend to be poor and rural, and the healthiest ones tend to be urban or suburban and upper-income."
I don't suppose access to health care ONLY for the wealthy, the connected, and the elitist government employees has anything to do with it!
Who lied to you? Why didn't you research this before taking the bait hook, line, and sinker? It's not a special club for the rich, connected, and elitist only. You just need a job that offers insurance benefits. Outside of contract jobs (which I opted OUT of the insurance VOLUNTARILY), I had fully funded insurance in every job I've ever had.
Remember when people told you as a kid to pay attention, stay out of trouble, finish school, or you'll end up one of those welfare people who don't have anything? They weren't kidding.
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!!
THIS MUST END!!!!!!!!!
WE NEED TO FIX THIS!!!!!!!!
WE NEED TO FIX EVERYTHING FOR THESE POOR PEOPLE!!!!!!!
The sad part is I'm sure these poor and rural people don't have lovely 4,000 square foot homes either. We should give this to them too.
I'm sure they don't have a Denali or a Beemer parked in their gargae either. We should give this to them too.
I'm sure they don't have a 60" Plasma TV in each room either. We should give this to them too.
I'm sure they can't go out to eat everynight to a 5 Star restaurant. We should give this to them too.
I'm sure they can't get their kids into Harvard or Yale. We should give this to them too.
But thank God we don't have to pay for their cigarettes and alcohol. They seem to have a firm grip on those needs.
Another LameStream Liberal media article trying to put the guilt on everyone but the guilty!
^^^^^^ All I really get from that above post is "I secretly think I deserve all these things, but cannot attain them for myself, so I'm going to complain and whine whenever anyone suggests making healthcare easier to access for the poor is a good idea."
It amazes me that so many don't seem to understand the need for health care and insurance reform. It amazes me that they can't seem to wrap their brains around the fact that they are paying for the poor and uninsured with their higher premiums, that the health care is nearly 25% of the GDP, that passing a national health care program will REDUCE the deficit and offer AFFORDABLE health care coverage for millions. The GOP can only talk about the need to allow people to buy insurance across state lines - right! - that's worked so well with the credit card companies hasn't it? And tort reform? Give me a break! Every study shows that it will have very little impact (except saving INSURANCE COMPANIES lots of money). USA Rogue - No one has asked for a Beemer or a plasma TV, give that b.s. a rest! They're just asking for that which every other industrialized country IN THE WORLD has - affordable health insurance and care for all its citizens. Why is that so horrible?
Remember poor people eat poor food, and they can't afford health care.
My county is rated one of the healthiest in my state. It's around 80% white.
The article about aspirin. Yes, aspirin is a great drug. But remember too many will destroy your kidneys, and cause other problems in your body.
Did this article really say anything not already known?? Doesn't take a study to know that rural areas with no access to health care and groceries tend to be poor and make do with what they have. I would like to know the figures on healthy counties who have the bulk of welfare participant as a posed to actual job working folk with access?? Is that county really healthy because they choose to be or because they get it free?? A lot of questions for this so called study not answered IMO.
Good point, Kat. I wonder how much we wasted on this study to point a glaring light at the obvious. Perhaps the parallel would be better drawn if it highlighted the correlation between education level and health.
That sounds like a much more relevant study as I hear time and time again things that have nothing to do with financial status (like making good nutrition choices and exercising daily) equated with people having money, when in fact they are things that people can do because they are smart (especially in rural areas where more fruit grows on trees).
When I first viewed this article I could download information about any county. Within an hour I could only view a "Snapshot" of the poorest and wealthiest counties in each state. What happened?
Arizona Grandma: right on!
Interesting that they don't include high radon levels in Kansas, yet focus on smoking, obesity, and binge drinking. Oh, that's right. This "study" was sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
If we taxed multinational fast food chains and Walmart out of business "mainstreet" would return and the huge corporate feedlots and corporate farmers that supply them would go out of business too. We could go back to local "farmers" raising food and local store fronts selling goods. The next bail out should be to county extension agents teaching americans how to grow and put up their own food for their families. As for the Indian Reservations, we could actually provide them with good nutrition, good schools and healthcare, anything besides total neglect!
And the Easter Bunny can bring us carrots and tofu! Dream on! If you taxed ANY of those companies out of business, another would take their place overnight! How much food do you grow in a condo in a HOA? Good luck with that! More and more of the country is urabnized every decade, so where you going to grow that food exactly? If you want local anything, prepare for higher food costs than ever. The most basic law of economics will see to that: supply and demand. You want farmers that grow more produce per acre than anywhere else on earth to go under? Really? I'm trying to see any rational thinking to your post, but I'm sorry, too hopey-changy I guess to be reality.