4 Trillion for Health Care By 2017?
February 18, 2009
From Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index they have an article on their about by 2017 based on statistical information that is gathered every day – health care costs will be at 4 Trillion.
What’s worse is that 50% of that costs can be reduced by taking preventative measures such as dieting and exercise and just taking better care of ourselves. Makes me wonder if medical insurance is going to be nationalized what a huge amount of trouble for the government to try and help everyone.
A little information about Gallup-Healthways:
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is designed to be the Dow Jones of health, giving a daily measure of people’s well-being at the close of every day. With a daily measure, determining the correlation between the places where people work and the communities in which they live, and how it impacts their well-being, is now possible. Additionally, the Well-Being Index will increase an understanding of how those factors impact the financial health of corporations and communities.
When conducting the information they called 1000 people a day in 2008 so the information that they are sharing has good accuracy.
If we want to see medical insurance premiums not rise we need to do what we can to have the politicians increase awareness and provide incentives for people to be more healthy.
Maybe instead of bailing out health insurance for people money should be put in for healthier people. People could use a free membership to their local workout facility complements of the government!
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