The Centers for Disease Control has just launched LeanWorks, an online obesity prevention program that employers can use to help trim their workers’ waistlines. It’s no secret, Americans are getting fatter and fatter and sicker and sicker because of it. Employers are worried about the nation’s fat epidemic because, as the LeanWorks site points out [...]
President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to pass health care reform “this year,” and not in five or ten years, according to The Wall Street Journal’s live blogging from the President’s recent Town Hall Meeting on health care. The event occurred at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va.. Members of the public also sent [...]
More Americans, including children, are obese according to a recent report from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. “Adult obesity rates now exceed 25 percent in 31 states and exceed 20 percent in 49 states and Washington, D.C. Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight. In 1991, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. In [...]
When politicians propose health care reforms, they tend to either pander to strong interest groups or they push some blatant political agenda, such as moving to government-financed universal care. But in his latest post consultant Bob Laszewski proposes a reform that could drive a stake right into the heart of the health care beast — [...]
