Couldn't help thinking of the following clip from Star Wars when I saw the latest mortality calculator from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They claim to have found a way to keep people from dying -- and to be able to show you on a snazzy internet calculator.
The RWJ people -- and their hapless followers in the media -- have determined after minutes and minutes of deep thought, that simply raising taxes will set their great plans into action. Funny how their mandate for getting more people some education sounds so much like the federal plan to print more dollar bills so everyone will have running around money.
Oh, here is a link to their life-saving calculator. Too bad there is nothing in there about raising educational standards, making assessments more useful, or controlling wasteful spending by the bureaucracy.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Another "eureka!" moment for brain-dead Left
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If the bloated masses would stop ripping through cartons of GPCs and buckets of KFC, and took some of the practical advice for personal health that some of the foundations like RWJ try so hard to transmit to the people, then you and I wouldn't have to pay for the diabetes, the heart disease and the rest of the ailments that have exploded in our population over the past generation. The spectre of social security costs would not loom so large, because baby boomers wouldn't have to waddle into the emergency room on swollen cankles, and their kids wouldn't be house-bound asthmatics. If the calculator can convince some housewife to start serving her kid fresh vegetables over fish sticks, I am for it.
But you have to actually look at the "calculator," A.C. There's nothing in there about eating fresh veggies. Nothing about changing bad habits at all.
The RWJ people wouldn't have to try to talk anyone into lifestyle changes -- or, let's say they would be more successful at it -- if the government didn't subsidize bad health habits so lavishly.
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