Healthcare update

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

America just keeps getting fatter

Even Coloradans, long the nation's slimmest citizens, are gaining excess pounds. With an obese population of 19.8% — it is the only state with an adult obesity rate below 20% — Colorado remains the caboose on the nation's huffing, puffing train to fat land.
But in just the last four years, the ranks of the obese even in Colorado have grown 0.7%. Colorado's hypertension rates have risen significantly as well, to 21.2% of adults.
The report, prepared by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health, is their sixthannual state-by-state accounting of obesity.
In the last 15 years, the report said, adult obesity rates have doubled or nearly doubled in 17 states. Two decades ago, not a single state had an obesity rate above 15%. Now all states do.

Completely artificial organ implanted

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There's No Reason To Believe A Tax Repatriation Holiday Would Benefit U.S. Markets Or Currency

Medicare IS Means Tested

I bet you’re getting a subsidy for your health insurance, too

In any case, we do agree that these subsidies — all of them, including the employer-sponsored insurance one — cost the government a lot of money.  The employer-sponsored health insurance tax subsidy costs about $240 billion annually. We bet many people think that per-person public spending on Medicaid is dramatically more than the average worker gets via the employer-sponsored insurance tax subsidy. But guess what? They’re not as different as you might think.
Total Medicaid spending per person is about $6,300. Do you know what the average cost of the employer-sponsored tax subsidy is? You can read it off the graph above as the difference between the right-most and middle columns. It’s about $5,000. And, remember, this was a conservative (low) estimate.* Yes, it is lower than what is spent on behalf of an average Medicaid beneficiary, but not by as much as you might have thought. It’s almost like most workers are on welfare. We bet you never thought of it that way.
* The actual average tax subsidy rate is about 40% (not 37%), making the average dollar amount in subsidy about $5,500 (not $5,000). The difference between this and what is spent on the average Medicaid beneficiary, $6,300, is only $800.