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