And studies have already documented that Medicaid does not pay enough for the poor on the program to get timely and effective health care, and so they suffer worse health outcomes as a result, including prematuredeath.
The Environmental Protection Agency calls radon "extremely toxic, " and the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in 1998 listed it as the most frequent cause of prematuredeath from a hazard in the home.
It is even more sobering to realize that obesity is estimated to show a lag time of about 25 years before its total effect on prematuredeath and disease is seen.
Since obesity is estimated to show a lag time of about 25 years before more complete effects on prematuredeath and disease are seen, public health experts predict an enormous impact on world-wide health and life expectancy in the future.