New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks

[sofa king]

111. It's because we refuse to pay for health education.

A real health care system would include a large component of consumer health education, which in turn would better inform consumers about the detrimental effects of their habits and encourage them to make wiser choices.

Unfortunately, we can't afford that because we can't possibly allow the wealthy to become second-vacation-home-less.

Keeping people ignorant and pursuing unhealthy lifestyles also has the beneficial (to a select few) multiplier of killing off workers before they can retire, shifting those costs to the health care industry so that there is even less likelihood of health education funding.

So, I assume these legislators have concluded, the only inexpensive way to interrupt the problem (or at least draw temporary attention to it) is to fight it with the blunt instrument of stupid legislation.

Because we can't afford scalpels anymore.