Thoughts on Healthcare Spending

Healthcare for people who are obese costs 42% more (avg of $1400).  Obesity accounts for $147 billion dollars of healthcare spending (10% of total spending).  Medicare spends on average $600 just on prescriptions for obese persons which if you take the total # of obese persons today which is 72 million that is $43.2 billion a year.  So if there were no obesity that could save $190 billion a year in healthcare spending.  Imagine what that could do for your monthly premiums and copays people.

23 million children are over wieght.  That breaks down to 17% of children under 10 are obese.  25% of children 10-17 are obese.  That is insane!

People food and perhaps lack of proper exercise is what is killing us and our wallets.  And this is according to a study in 2006.  Healthcare costs go up 3.4% due to obesity every 8 years, 

Why dont you add smoking into the mix which costs another $96 billion into the mix.  That would bring the grand total of healthcare savings to $286.2 billion.  This was a 2006 study from the CDC.  Pretty sure that is close to the same number "ObamaCare" SAID it would spend.