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A Prevention Program That Susidizes Healthcare Spending

What if staying healthy was a means of earning money or reducing taxes? Would this help reduce the cost of maintaining health and rising risks of chronic illnesses? What if this could drastically reduce your healthcare premiums? Would you even be interested in participating in a program that offered this option? It sounds at first glance a bit improbable ,but let's take a closer examination . Companies have incentive in the marketing of medical devices and drugs with a large profit margin. The market has created an incentive to improve health for corporations by "selling" the idea you will be healthier with their products . The same idea is with hospitals and managed care corporations. Currently our drive to maintain health is based on this corporate model that health can be maintained by "buying" it from the market(drug companies, medical device companies, hospitals and insurance companies). But, is this the only model? What if there was the same incentive ...