Money Buys Health?

Or at least lack of illness-causing germs?

As a general rule, the higher the price [of a hotel room] the cleaner the room. "I did a study about seven years that found if you paid more than $50 a night, there was a much greater chance that the room was regularly disinfected," [University of Arizona microbiologist Charles Gerba, PhD, a leading researcher better known in the science world as "Dr. Germ"] tells WebMD. "Rooms under $50 weren't." But no matter the price, the single place where you'll find the most surface germs: the TV remote. "It's never cleaned," he says.

Germs Are Everywhere - Really by Sid Kirchheimer, WebMD.com, 1/31/2005

Study: Money, Mental Health Strongly Related

A Gallup study reports that there is a strong relationship between income and mental health:

While the substantial majority of Americans rate their mental health today as excellent or good, there are significant variations in this self-reported mental health measure by one's socioeconomic position. Those with higher incomes are much more likely than those with lower incomes to report excellent mental health, and this relationship persists even when other variables such as age, education, gender, and marital status are taken into account.