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To: TobagoJack who wrote (40465)9/28/2008 5:40:22 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217901
 
The HEALTH CARE issues are daunting ans should have been taken serious a long time ago. I always looked to this as a sickness but people who worry about it thing abut a cosmetics.

Like looking good instead of treating as sickeness.

In Brazil, just now people are bulging up and the health authorities are not raising an alarm.

HEALTH CARE
Obesity is the #1 killer in the US.
Obesity costs are $1 Trillion.
Obesity leads to:
1. 30-50% increase in the probability of getting cancer.
2. Increases odds of having to have an amputation by 1300 times!

41% of Women in the US are not fat but obese.
6% of French women are obese and 1% of Chinese are obese.
This is one of the reasons why health care costs are so much higher in the US.

1 in 80 men in the US weighs over 300 pounds.
Health costs of an obese person are 4 times higher than that of a person that smokes.

1993 – End of the Pharmaceutical Industry as we know it.
- Clinton introduced regulation of rate of return.
- Stock prices plummeted by 40-50%
- Companies no longer incentivized to do Research and Development.
- Companies stopped focusing on R&D and started focusing on Marketing.
- Research costs in India are 20-30% of the US and can be developed in half the time.
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