re: Personal Stories of ACA in WV, powerful article

Here is your problem in these areas. They have really crappy lifestyles in terms of habits and diets. You could deliver to them the BEST healthcare , but until you address the lifestyles, you are just running around putting multiple fingers in a dyke that keeps springing holes.

If you wanted to help fix it, the types of foods they eat would be a good place to start. It's a world of processed foods heavy in sugars and salt.....cereal, potato chips, etc.

Another thing I would do would be to tax the hell out of cigarettes.....I'll guarantee you that the rate of smoking there is probably 2X the national average and the daily consumption of tobacco is ridiculous as hell.

Those two things would help those people out....but it's probably a losing battle. I knew a girl from N. LA who once told me that overall in her small town that there were three things to do there .....smoking, screwing and drinking....in that order