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...just 0.8% in the 65-to-74 demographic. Whites, among whom 8.2% were at low risk of heart disease, did better than Mexican Americans (5.3%), and both did better than African Americans (4.6%). The racial gaps have much to do with socioeconomic disparities and unequal access to health care, but there are also genetic factors at play, with certain groups having a higher susceptibility to certain conditions...
...answer to much of this - as is so often the case - is better diet, more exercise and early detection. Such preventive measures form one of the cornerstones of the ongoing health-care debate - one of the few points on which nearly all sides can agree. The authors of the new study call for physicians to be reimbursed for heart-disease-prevention measures like working with their patients to develop weight-loss and smoking-cessation plans and to be allowed enough breathing room in their schedules to let them do good cardiac assessments. Schools and workplaces, the paper argues, should also...
Owing to budget crises, many states are now having trouble affording to keep so many people locked up. Some states are cutting incarceration expenses by consolidating prisons; some are trying to slash prison-food and health-care costs. But real savings come only when you reduce prison populations, and so some states - including California, Colorado and Kentucky - have begun releasing inmates early. "The pressure in state legislatures all over the country is to bring down the populations, because we just can't afford the level of punishment that we've had the last 20 years," says Joan Petersilia, a criminologist...
...Health care is hard," may be the Obama Administration's catchphrase of the moment, but it's a cakewalk compared with the challenge facing Obama on Iran. Under pressure to turn up the heat on the Iranians - from European allies, Israel and bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill - Obama had demanded that the Islamic Republic respond by September to a Western offer to resume negotiations or else face escalating sanctions...
...least on health care, Obama can claim victory with incremental change. On Iran, there is no incremental option: unless Tehran is ready to back down - which appears highly unlikely - the President will be pressed to raise the stakes. And then the game gets truly dangerous...