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There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the diseases that fast food causes. All the more reason for each of us to take more person

• Retric 17y ago
  Most health care spending in the US is caused by aging. Most heath care spending is paid for by the state, local, or federal government (50%+). Most heath care spending is caused by people living longer. Most heath care spending is caused by better and more expensive treatments that we did not have 100 years ago. Smokers have shorter lives and spend less on heath care over their lifetime. Smokers cause a huge short term spike in heath care costs. PS: There are plenty of ways of slicing it, but excluding sudden death we are all going to spend a lot of money on heath care and we are all going to die.