yetanotherone

It's a little offtopic, but this reminds me of Lessig's "the corrupting influence of money is the first problem facing this nation. That unless we solve this problem, we won’t solve anything else."

In my opinion the public option wouldn't have cost us much as a nation on the whole, and could have possibly worked out to great advantage, but was not going to happen because health insurance companies are too powerful for that sort of thing to get through.

All of this highlights the need for more funding towards nutrition science. It's absurdly hard to do this stuff (e.g., controlling what people eat for a year), so it's expensive. But given how expensive things like diabetes are, I think it'd be societally efficient to drop $100M or something on few grand randomized controlled experiments.

This[1] is the closest thing I'm aware of. You'd sorta hope governments would make this kind of thing a priority.

[1] http://nusi.org/the-science/current-science-in-progress/#.U9...