http://root-fu.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] root-fu.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2012-09-05 12:03 am (UTC)

Healthcare costs are pooled similar to car insurance costs.

The lower the total cost, the less the cost to buy into the system.

Less instance of illness == lower cost.

Lower cost == lower payments & premiums.

If there's 50,000 chemotherapy treatments in a year costing $10,000 each that amounts to roughly $500,000 per year of costs that insurance or a socialist healthcare system must absorb.

If through healthier diet and lifestyle we're able to cut those 50,000 treatments to 25,000 it would cost $250,000 per year. Less cost for health insurance & socialized healthcare to absorb equates to lower premiums / payments.

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