The Milken Institute has released a report on the economic burden caused by often avoidable chronic diseases around the the United States. The financial impact is not only broken down by treatment costs, but by lost work productivity as well.
They have created an interactive map of the U.S. that provides a national and state-by-state breakdown of theses costs.
According to their research in 2003 alone $277 billion dollars was spent on treatment, while a little over a trillion dollars was lost due to a lack of work productivity by the affected for a combined $1.3 trillion dollars in economic damage. If we stay on our current course, the Milken Institute believes that by 2023 the combined losses could be as high $4.13 trillion dollars.
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I think that the people who work at such institutes are a burden to the american taxpayer.
This is the precise reason why fitness should be a part of every corporate venture. The best wealth is always health and a corporate fitness program can help increase productivity by reducing the incidence of chronic disease among workers.
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