How To Walk Back Rising Healthcare Costs

Politicians futz and fume over rising healthcare costs, honestly seeming like schoolyard children sometimes. Short of putting them in “Time Out”, I have a suggestion that is super cost effective as well as being, well, just effective! 

Take STROKE as an example. 

Here’s The Economic Cost of Stroke Every Year

• $43 billion 
• The direct costs = $28 billion, indirect costs = $15 billion
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How To Reduce Those Treatment Costs

• Women who walked briskly for 210 minutes or more per week (that’s only 30 minutes per day for only 6 days per week!!) had a lower stroke risk than inactive women
• This translated to a whopping 43 percent reduction in stroke risk (article just pubbed in the American Heart Association journal, Stroke. Full Article is here)

Cost of the “prevention medicine”? 

• Maybe $25 for a pair of shoes

Cost savings? 

• 42 Billion, 999 Million, 999 Thousand, 975 dollars

This amounts to a 171.9 BILLION PERCENT return on investment (ROI). Investors hope, hope, hope for a consistent return of 10% or so. If you could produce a 171.9 billion percent return … every year … you would have a winning formula. 

Maybe we should start with that. Just thinking out loud.