The HICCup Manifesto
It is hard to find anyone in health care who does not believe that spending $100 now on healthy behavior could yield more than $200 in lowered costs and improved outcomes. So why do individuals and communities not act on the basis of this knowledge?
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NEW YORK – It is hard to find anyone in health care who does not believe that spending $100 now on healthy behavior – exercise and proper nutrition, counseling for pre-diabetics, risk monitoring, and so on – could yield more than $200 in reduced costs and improved outcomes later. The numbers are fuzzy, of course, and there are plenty of methodological caveats, but there is little dispute about the desirability of such an approach.