Bad Advice

Here is a column full of bad advice.  The last bit:

8. Your friends are your health insurance. As health care costs keep increasing, you will have to get a higher and higher deductible. This is where friends come in: people who have friends are more likely to be mentally healthy, and mental health brings physical health. And the Framingham Heart Study has shown that if you pick healthy friends, you’ll be healthy, too. And if they’re really good friends, you can use their health insurance policy instead of getting your own.

I've yet to go to a dinner party where someone fixed a torn ACL, but maybe I hang with the wrong crowd.