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{
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"HubID": "5219",
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"Date": "4/14/2025",
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"HubTags": [
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"External Platform Posts",
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"Future Map"
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],
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"Contacts": "",
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"Companies": "",
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"File": "",
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"Image": "5219__Image_URL.png",
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"Summary": "<p>Entitlement spending is enormous, a system setup almost 100 years ago but which could not anticipate its growth to where it is today. 100 million people are on Medicaid - or 1 for every 3.4 people. That is a staggering amount. How do we reform this to get spending down? Can we? The U.S. spends the most per person on healthcare yet we are the sickest nation among all developed nations. The key is to reduce medical spending per person and programs like the Cleveland Clinic are leading the way. Their voluntary wellness program cuts their costs relative to the national average by 38% and rising. 75% of employees participate, and those that do not pay more in healthcare costs. The average Medicare recipient generates expenses (in excess of their premiums) of about $13,730 in 2023; CBO expects that number to reach $22,170 in 2033. If we expanded the Cleveland Clinic program nationwide and cut the 22,170 by 40%, that would be enormous savings right there through voluntary participation in things that everyone can do to improve their health. But the lucky break in reducing health costs could be GLP-1 - that is, Ozempic, Mounjaro, and all GLP-1-related weight loss technology. More than 70% of the U.S. population is classified as obese with direct and indirect costs estimated at $1.7 trillion, not to mention the costs of the industrial food complex to addict you to unhealthy food and then hand you off to the Diabetes Industrial Complex. These drugs could massively disrupt not just the weightloss markets, but the junk food and health care markets, giving us an enormous reduction in health care costs that we never saw coming. It is imperative we disrupt the food industrial complex, use innovation to drive down health care costs and force people to engage in basic things to improve their health like the Cleveland Clinic is doing. </p>",
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"Notes": ""
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