. Pretty much what I believe. I'm sick and tired of paying higher insurance premiums to fatties who eat themselves into the ground. I have a client, 51-52 years old who needs a hip transplant because he weighs 325+ lbs and he wore out his hips.
Smokers and obese are the 2 highest drivers of our out of control health care cost. Record Type 2 diabetes, joint problems, HBP, sleep apnea, om and on related to obesity.
I don't want the gov't to get involved but the private sector to clamp down with these people with incentives to control their diet and weight.
Maybe you should learn how to properly route payments and pay the premiums to your insurance provider instead.
But just as at the 2008 and 2009 Chicago Marathons, Frighetto was unable to finish because of injury.
Frighetto, a self-described former couch potato, said that since she first decided to run a marathon in late 2006, she has seen doctors for a stress fracture in her foot, plantar fasciitis and iliotibial band syndrome. The activity that promised to make her healthier was actually increasing the frequency of her doctor visits, a fact that makes amateur athletes like her a problematic group of people for health insurance companies to insure. And as more and more people become marathoners — the 2011 Boston Marathon sold out in eight hours — distance runners are becoming a hard group to ignore.
“Insurance companies love runners because they’re healthy people... But, he added, because they train so hard, they have injuries and accidents that can sometimes make them difficult to insure.
. Distance running, in particular, has a documented history of injury: a 2007 study published in The British Journal of Sports Medicine found rates of injury to the lower extremities were as high as 79 percent in long-distance runners.
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