Many things we do in life seem to generate counter-intuitive results not because life is counter-intuitive, but rather because life is complex and the thinking in our analyses of life is not complex enough.
So, as our society struggles to cheapen the cost of good health care and to extend access to good health care to a maximum number of people, a Dutch study has clearly implied that one effective way to save on health care costs is to encourage people to become obese and to also "smoke like a chimney."
Why?
Well, the study found that, in the long run, life is so prolonged by good health that lifetime health care for healthy people is about 120% as costly as health care for those who eat and smoke themselves to death.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22995659/
In other words, analytically, if avoiding the cost of health care is our primary goal, not health, not life, then keeping people healthy is more expensive.
There is a brutal way to understand the problem.
Who is more expensive to care for? These folks...
...or these folks?...
So, as our society struggles to cheapen the cost of good health care and to extend access to good health care to a maximum number of people, a Dutch study has clearly implied that one effective way to save on health care costs is to encourage people to become obese and to also "smoke like a chimney."
Why?
Well, the study found that, in the long run, life is so prolonged by good health that lifetime health care for healthy people is about 120% as costly as health care for those who eat and smoke themselves to death.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22995659/
In other words, analytically, if avoiding the cost of health care is our primary goal, not health, not life, then keeping people healthy is more expensive.
There is a brutal way to understand the problem.
Who is more expensive to care for? These folks...
...or these folks?...
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