Study: Healthy People Cost Governments More
(You can listen to the report from the above link.)
All Things Considered, February 5, 2008 · There are a lot of good reasons for people to lose weight and stop smoking — but saving money on lifetime health care costs isn't one of them, according to a study out of the Netherlands.
The researchers found that healthy people cost governments more in the long run because they live years longer: an average of 4.5 years longer than people who are obese, and seven years longer than smokers.
(Van Baal, "Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure")
Where did this spring weather come from? It was 52° at 5:00am and 74° when I left the office at 5:00pm. Still, a good run this morning -- 5.3 miles at an 8:32 mpm pace. Tomorrow is a tempo run -- Oh, joy!
Run well, y'all,
Bob
Richmond
2 comments:
Couldn't get through the day without listening to NPR going to and from work.
That's pretty interesting, I wonder what year the data were from. My prediction is that this will turn around as healthcare technology gets more sophisticated and more expensive, it will over take the costs of the healthy living longer. It used to be that a regular old heart attack cost an average of 16K, now that is much higher as the treatments are more extensive and sophisticated.
Sorry, am I lecturing? :D
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