Weight-Loss Program Could Save Up To $15 Billion For Medicare

Bull - except they got one thing right. The government is stupid enough to invest in "weight-loss prevention programs."

Medicare could save up to $15 billion if it invested in diabetes and heart disease weight-loss prevention programs focusing on baby boomers, researchers from Emory University, Atlanta, wrote in Health Affairs. The authors propose offering a wider range of proven community-based weight-loss programs for individuals aged between 60 and 64 with pre-diabetes before they reach 65 when they enter the Medicare program.

Prediabetes means the person's blood sugar levels are not yet high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis to be made, but they are higher than normal. Without intervention, prediabetes usually progresses to type 2 diabetes within ten years. Heart and circulatory system damage may already be starting in a person with prediabetes. However, the progression to type 2 diabetes is not inevitable. If the individual loses weight, eats a healthy and well balanced diet, and exercises regularly, his/her blood sugar levels will probably return to normal.

Why is this bull?

Because the fat baby boomers will not lose the weight.

History has proven that with certainty.