Reform Health Care Now: We need to practice preventive medicine

I know people who claim they'd rather live the good life now and drop dead a little early than eat tofu, drink green tea and live to be 90.

But what if you don't get the "good," quick and painless death from a heart attack that you imagined? Instead, choosing an unhealthy lifestyle may mean you spend your last years confined to a wheelchair in a nursing home, unable to speak because of a stroke.