Health Care Costs To Bulge Along With U.s. Waistlines

Do you think it is possible to predict the future of obesity in the country? I do not think obesity is more of a drain on the health system than smoking, alcoholism, cancer and other major known ailments.

Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/health/us-obesity/index.html?hpt=us_c2

 

Hehehe, OK It might not be a Laughing matter, but it's a "I told you so situation" here in the UK about 10 years ago or quite a few years, the government commissioned a report to look into why Britain had the Highest Cancer, Heart, etc related deaths in Europe, the result a national campaign on getting the nation healthy, to me logically at the time this would result in people living longer and thus then costing more in pensions, health care for the elderly, housing etc problems, the government is now increasing the minimum retirement age, looking at different ways in building social, and private housing, and looking at making people with assets sell them off to pay for nursing and care as they become incapable through age.

now to me you build more houses the wrong way you lower the value of existing properties, ie supply and demand, you raise the pension age you decrease available jobs for school leavers, as someone famous once said every action has an equal and opposite reaction, governments work on reaction , not pre-action. but they don't care as they solve the current problem and someone down the line has to pick up the problems they've caused through reaction.

so no matter what opinion you have, everything ends up in a mess and the tax payer gets "Bleep"

so why bother worrying or caring, be happy eat the things you like to, do the things you like to, and have fun you only get one life (Debatable if you believe in reincarnation), because in my opinion I'd rather die young and happy than be old and miserable!