Food Science Michael Pollan: Insurance Industry would have an interest in U.S. population health

Food Science Michael Pollan states that the insurance industry would have an interest in a healthier U.S. population due to the elimination of preexisting conditions.

- Similarities between the tobacco corporations and the food corporations (glucose fructose corn syrup super sugars)

- The root cause of rising health care costs is the U.S. diet.

- If you give a powerful industry an interest in an unhealthy U.S. population you will end up with an unhealthy population. The same is true if you give a powerful industry an interest in a healthy population.

More incentives linked to profit, health, and lower costs would also increase the U.S. population health.