With all the talk about health care cost, I decided to do my own research. Depending upon which data source you choose, and there are many, it appears that Americans spend about $3 trillion per year on health care.
In rounded numbers, smokers account for $96 billion and obesity comes in at $190 billion. I rounded the total to $300 billion. That’s about 10 percent of $3 trillion.
The conclusion is that healthy people are killing us in health care cost.
We need more fat people that smoke.
PMO
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