Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut??

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FirmhandKY -> Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 2:50:45 PM)
Suprisingly ... the "health nut" costs more: Obese People Cheaper To Treat, Study Says Ultimately, the thin and healthy group cost the most, about $417,000, from age 20 on. The cost of care for obese people was $371,000, and for smokers, about $326,000. Interesting "twist" on those numbers though ... [8D] Firm

Zensee -> RE: Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 2:54:43 PM)
quote: Researchers found that from age 20 to 56, obese people racked up the most expensive health costs. But because both the smokers and the obese people died sooner than the healthy group, it cost less to treat them. On average, healthy people lived 84 years. Smokers lived about 77 years, and obese people lived about 80 years. A twist when given a sensationalist headline, maybe. Not much of a twist when considered in context of the article. Z.

kittinSol -> RE: Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 2:58:14 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY Suprisingly ... the "health nut" costs more: Because he/she lives longer [:D] . If you die prematuraly from fatness/smoking/both you'll cost the system less money than if you go on, and on, and on...

KenDckey -> RE: Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 3:02:50 PM)
OK then why aren't they complaining about the "health nuts?"

domiguy -> RE: Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 3:11:54 PM)
They seem like rather poor and inept economists....If you live a healthy life when does the majority of your health care costs begin? Since they use alzheimers as one of the potential costs that healthy people will have to endure...It usually strikes one at a rather advanced age. Starting from age 20 doesn't make much sense...Again, where do the majority of health costs begin? For instance if someone dies from lung cancer at age 50 compared to dying from alzheimers in your seventies or eighties....there is a huge impact in the value of present day dollars. I did find an interesting fact when looking up some info regarding this.... Jeanne-Louise Calment of France, who died in 1997, lived to be 122 years and five months. . She was bright and spry into her later years. She took up fencing at age 87. I hesitate to say this, but she smoked until she was 117. So smoke'em if you got'em. I unfortunately quit before reading this.

FirmhandKY -> RE: Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 3:32:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Zensee quote: Researchers found that from age 20 to 56, obese people racked up the most expensive health costs. But because both the smokers and the obese people died sooner than the healthy group, it cost less to treat them. On average, healthy people lived 84 years. Smokers lived about 77 years, and obese people lived about 80 years. A twist when given a sensationalist headline, maybe. Not much of a twist when considered in context of the article. Z. Spoilsport! [>:] Firm

kittinSol -> RE: Highest Health Care Costs: Obese, Smoker, Health Nut?? (2/7/2008 3:42:07 PM)
Jeanne-Louise's famous line: "I only have one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it." (Authentic.)

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