Health Insurance for All – A Weighty Issue
August 17th, 2009
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The prospect of universal health coverage for all Americans is weighing heavily on lawmakers right now. But, if the current proposals pass Congress, Americans may be looking at an even “weightier” problem. New economic research suggests that having health insurance actually makes people fat, and that, in turn, increases health care spending. A working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) discovered that Americans who have any type of health insurance cove
