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What is remarkable, however, is that when first proposed, healthcare reform would have in fact most benefitted the predominantly Republican states, where disparities in healthcare are the greatest as reported by UnitedHealth Foundation’s annual rankings. Of the 10 unhealthiest states in 2009, nine voted for John McCain in 2008. In 2004, all of the 15 worst ranking states backed George W. Bush...
...Paradoxical State The same could be said of india's health system. Sixty years after independence, India remains one of the unhealthiest places on earth. Millions of people still suffer from diseases and ailments that simply no longer exist almost anywhere else on the planet. Four out of five children are anemic. Almost one in four women who give birth receives no antenatal care. What makes the picture even bleaker is the fact that India's economic boom has had, so far at least, little impact on health standards. Think of it this way: in the five years between...
...life expectancy.” According to the study, the “healthiest” states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, which have combined male-female life expectancies above 78 years, which is the European average. Washington D.C. is the unhealthiest place to live, with a combined life expectancy of 72 years, on par with the Gaza Strip. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina, all have combined life expectancies under 75 years—lower than Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Middlesex County, which includes Cambridge, fares well; men here can expect...
LeBow, 59, makes an unlikely populist hero. He's an '80s-style corporate buccaneer who plundered Western Union, rattled American Brands and took runs at Prime Computer and RJR Nabisco. As head of the Liggett tobacco company, he has contributed to one of America's unhealthiest habits, but last week, ironically, he became the bearer of gifts to those plotting the demise of the cigarette industry. In settling a raft of lawsuits, LeBow agreed to turn over documents that presumably tell what the tobacco execs knew and when they knew...
...downside of employee-wellness programs like this one has always been that most people who enroll are already fit. A company's unhealthiest, and therefore costliest, employees continue to smoke, drink and eat their way to an early grave. According to a 1993 study, half of the 2 million deaths that occur each year in the U.S. can be linked to unhealthy life-styles. The three biggest culprits--tobacco, lack of exercise and a high-fat diet--together account for at least $200 billion of the nation's $1 trillion in health-care costs...