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Because these people cannot pay for their health care, this would be a good reason to make things like smoking and trans fats illegal. Since thesse people are hurting everyone else and the country by using them.

I think that it is time to start teaching kids about health in schools. This is something that they can use the rest of their life unlike other things taught in school. A little bit of knowledge can go a long way.

As long as most Americans (I am not generalizing) prefer to remain ignorant and not ask questions, this problem shall remain a problem. I must say, though, that I have noticed that the health people (doctors, nurses, etc.) do little to help either. One can be consulted by a nurse--temperature, blood pressure taken, and the nurse says nothing to one about their values--or even by a doctor, and leave a medical office without answers. The medicine prescription forms do NOT include, as in Europe, the rubric where the diagnosis (for which the medicine is prescribed) is written clearly--so the patient may stay in the dark longer.
Overall,besides the fact that most people might not have received the best training for life from their parents--although reading a medicine bottle information (or a food label, just as well) logically requires just reading abilities and plenty of interest in the information read--they do not educate themselves either. After a certain age, not knowing such basic things is not acceptable any more, unless people are simply not interested in knowing. Maybe (just maybe) the mentioned Americans do not care to read medicine bottles dosages or food labels to find out what they put inside their bodies.