EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE

I wrote below that one part of the solution to our health care problems is education about how to stay healthy, something like JFK started back in the early 60s. Joe Klein writes that some people in a focus group he attended feel the same way:

Promises don't work. Whenever Obama promised a $1000 tax break in one of the ads, the reaction was negative--the dial ratings went south. When he said that we'd spend less money on health if people took better care of themselves, the independents--many of whom were, shall we say, Big Gulp Americans--responded well.