Chris Finley is Vermont Deputy
Commissioner of Public Health. Chittenden
County Democratic Senator Doug Racine chairs the Senate Committee on Health and
Welfare and is a member of the Health Care Reform Commission. They spoke with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about the issue of obesity.
Illness caused by obesity costs the Vermont health care system 140
million dollars annually. In his State of the State address, Governor Douglas proposed
increasing the money and staff devoted to dealing with the problem.
We talk about what that would mean and what communities and schools
are doing. And we learn about Absolute Zero from a UVM physicist, and then make a visit to the town of Pawlet. (pictured, Jane Linholm, Host)