Brian Gongol
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Literally: The city buys one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave town. A relative in the receiving town has to agree to take them in, so it's perhaps not as nefarious a plot as it sounds at first.
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That's a huge amount for a condition that, with some exceptions, is mostly a behavioral problem. And if we're going to be thrust into what could become a single-payer health-care system, the impact of what's mostly a preventable condition can't be overlooked. The President said on the campaign trail that his ideal health-care system would probably be a single-payer plan. But if government is that single payer, how will it contain the costs of obesity without mandating what we can and cannot eat, or how often we exercise? Overlooking a category accountable for almost a tenth of expenses would be irresponsible -- but government's usual approach to these things, like bans on trans fats, are imprecise and overbearing. Any useful health-care reform must ensure that some kind of market-feedback mechanism exists, so that individuals have incentives to avoid (mostly) preventable conditions like obesity whenever they can.
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Tried in the 1930s, but abandoned
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