Report: Invest $10 a person for better health

By LAURAN NEERGAARD , AP Medical Writer, Medicine & Health / Health

(AP) -- Investing just $10 per person - roughly the price of a six-pack of beer and some chips - could greatly fuel community programs that get couch potatoes moving, prevent smoking and improve nutrition, researchers say.

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Posted by plaasjaapie 07/17/08 11:33

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Let me see. Invest $10/person x 300 million people x 5 years = $15 billion. Do that and you will save $16 billion annually. I'm wondering if you'll continue to have to spend that $3 billion annually to save $16 or if somehow we'll see that cost creep up to $16 billion over that period of time as these guy's estimates prove to have been low-balled.

I guess that I wouldn't be so cynical but every social programme that has been aimed at national health like medicare and medicade has always had runaway costs. This one is doubly scary because it depends on educating(leftist newspeak for coercing) people into changing their behaviours. That's a very hard sell in a democracy.

I guess that these creeps will eventually come out of the closet and tell us that the really know what is best for everybody and we all ought to passively let them tell us how to live our lives for "our own good".