DaleC
Contributor
and somewhat misleading.
Elderly patients are not usually the most costly patients (often sub acute care recipients) and healthy people work longer and contribute more in taxes and pension plans to offset their inevitable health care costs.
Morbidly obese people have dramatically shorter work spans, contribute less financially to their own care costs and often wind up in acute care facilities for sub/non acute reasons that become "acute" because of their obesity.
Having said that I try to have compassion for people who struggle with problems, even if it may be due to the own doing. Often the reasons are not as clear cut as they seem and in the end, it is still a human being suffering.
Elderly patients are not usually the most costly patients (often sub acute care recipients) and healthy people work longer and contribute more in taxes and pension plans to offset their inevitable health care costs.
Morbidly obese people have dramatically shorter work spans, contribute less financially to their own care costs and often wind up in acute care facilities for sub/non acute reasons that become "acute" because of their obesity.
Having said that I try to have compassion for people who struggle with problems, even if it may be due to the own doing. Often the reasons are not as clear cut as they seem and in the end, it is still a human being suffering.