Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Are you entitled to free health insurance?

...or supplied/offered through your employer?

Here are some statistics:
1. Health insurance costs were 9% of our GDP in 1980
2. Health insurance costs were 18% of our GDP in 2009
3. 70% of all health care costs are the direct result of behavior
4. 74% of all health care costs are the result of 4 chronic conditions: CVD, cancer, diabetes, and obesity
5. 80% of CVD and diabetes is preventable
6. 60% of cancers are preventable
7. 90% of obesity is preventable

These statistics do not lie.

If we are going to get out of this and other problems outside of health insurance we need to replace "entitlement" with "accountability".

Unfortunately most of the extreme cases will not be awakened from hibernation until it begins to cost them money. That day is coming people.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124476804026308603.html



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