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Prison Health Care Costs Rise According to CNN.com, inmates are growing older and sicker, so prison health care costs are on the rise. As the health care debate continues, the prison community faces its own battle against rising medical costs. The elderly are the fastest-growing sector of the inmate population, experts say. It is a group that needs more frequent and costlier treatment, which states are required to provide under the cruel a ...

Obesity, smoking: Personal choices in the health care debate There is something inherently distasteful about being expected to foot the tax bill for someone else’s personal choices—particularly bad ones—and not being given any choice of your own in the matter. Which is why I am so surprised that there has been so little anger expressed by leaders on either side of the health care debate when it comes to the issue of personal choice and responsibility in health care. ...

Obama's Speech About More Than Health Care According to The New York Times' Adam Nagourney,  on one level, President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night was what it seemed: an attempt to corral lawmakers into approving the signature initiative of his presidency, the health care overhaul that has eluded Washington, as Mr. Obama said, for 65 years. But the speech was about more than health care. ...