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CDC: Medical cost of obesity $75 billion

The Associated Press
CNN
Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Atlanta, Georgia (AP) - Taxpayers foot the doctor's bill
for more than half of obesity-related medical costs,
which reached a total of $75 billion in 2003, according
to a new study.

The public pays about $39 billion a year -- or about $175
per person -- for obesity through Medicare and Medicaid
programs, which cover sicknesses caused by obesity
including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
several types of cancer and gallbladder disease.

The study, to be published Friday in the journal Obesity
Research, evaluates state-by-state expenditures related
to weight problems. The research was done by the
nonprofit group RTI International and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

"Obesity has become a crucial health problem for our
nation, and these findings show that the medical costs
alone reflect the significance of the challenge," said
Tommy Thompson, secretary for the Department of Health
and Human Services. "Of course, the ultimate cost to
Americans is measured in chronic disease and early
death."

States spend about one-twentieth of their medical costs
on obesity --from a low of 4 percent in Arizona to a high
of 6.7 percent in Alaska.

California spends the most on health care for the obese,
$7.7 billion, and Wyoming spends the least, $87 million.

"We have a lot of taxpayers financing the costs of
overweight and obesity for those in public sector health
plans," said Eric Finkelstein, a health economist with
RTI International who conducted the study. "That provides
justification for governments to find cost-effective
strategies to reduce the burdens of obesity."

About 64 percent of adults in the United States are
either overweight or obese, according to the CDC's 1999-
2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Physicians are seeing more and more people having health
problems because they're overweight or obese, said Dr.
Denise Bruner, chair of the board of the American Society
of Bariatric Physicians.

"This is one of the major health epidemics we're looking
at in America," she said. "I truly see this as a very
grave problem for which we in the public need to
certainly be pro-active in terms of taking charge of our
health."

Obesity should be treated and prevented more aggressively
through public health programs to encourage healthy diets
and exercise, said Michael Jacobson, executive director
of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a
nonprofit health advocacy group.

"It would certainly make for happier lives, and also save
medical expenses," he said. "A healthy population would
save taxpayers a huge amount of money."

More at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/01/21/obesity.spending.ap/index.html

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CDC: Medical cost of obesity $75 billion

The Associated Press
CNN
Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Atlanta, Georgia (AP) - Taxpayers foot the doctor's bill
for more than half of obesity-related medical costs,
which reached a total of $75 billion in 2003, according
to a new study.

The public pays about $39 billion a year -- or about $175
per person --for obesity through Medicare and Medicaid
programs, which cover sicknesses caused by obesity
including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
several types of cancer and gallbladder disease.

The study, to be published Friday in the journal Obesity
Research, evaluates state-by-state expenditures related
to weight problems. The research was done by the
nonprofit group RTI International and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

"Obesity has become a crucial health problem for our
nation, and these findings show that the medical costs
alone reflect the significance of the challenge," said
Tommy Thompson, secretary for the Department of Health
and Human Services. "Of course, the ultimate cost to
Americans is measured in chronic disease and early
death."

States spend about one-twentieth of their medical costs
on obesity --from a low of 4 percent in Arizona to a high
of 6.7 percent in Alaska.

California spends the most on health care for the obese,
$7.7 billion, and Wyoming spends the least, $87 million.

"We have a lot of taxpayers financing the costs of
overweight and obesity for those in public sector health
plans," said Eric Finkelstein, a health economist with
RTI International who conducted the study. "That provides
justification for governments to find cost-effective
strategies to reduce the burdens of obesity."

About 64 percent of adults in the United States are
either overweight or obese, according to the CDC's 1999-
2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Physicians are seeing more and more people having health
problems because they're overweight or obese, said Dr.
Denise Bruner, chair of the board of the American Society
of Bariatric Physicians.

"This is one of the major health epidemics we're looking
at in America," she said. "I truly see this as a very
grave problem for which we in the public need to
certainly be pro-active in terms of taking charge of our
health."

Obesity should be treated and prevented more aggressively
through public health programs to encourage healthy diets
and exercise, said Michael Jacobson, executive director
of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a
nonprofit health advocacy group.

"It would certainly make for happier lives, and also save
medical expenses," he said. "A healthy population would
save taxpayers a huge amount of money."

More at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/01/21/obesity.spending.ap/index.html

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