The Amazing Maze of US Health Care

By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — In a bid to ramp up the public health battle against obesity, a group of nutrition and economics experts are pushing for a tax of 1 cent on every of ounce of sodas and other sweetened beverages.

Proposals for a hefty soda tax though have repeatedly fallen flat. The idea was even floated as a way to help pay for health care reform, but government officials on Wednesday said that’s not likely to happen.

The experts’ plan was released by the influential New England Journal of Medicine, in a health policy article by Arkansas’ surgeon general, New York City’s health commissioner and five national experts on health and economics.

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