Originally Posted by
Ngchen
What do you all think about the admittedly somewhat crazy idea of having various HMOs fund cycling infrastructures in whole or in part? As strange as this sounds, it might actually make sense for the HMOs since increased cycling leads to decreased obesity and illness, and therefore equals less cost for the HMO. IMO it would be interesting to crunch the numbers (IIRC I saw an article yesterday about the staggering cost in dollars of obesity on the health-care system) to see whether it would make sense or not.
Whoo boy... talk about health care funding problems... No thanks... I'd rather the HMOs work on reducing the cost of aspirin to the patients.
Let the nation fund cycling infrastructure like they did motoring infrastructure. In 1956 there was the Federal Highway act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...ay_Act_of_1956
How about now that we realize that oil is providing funding for terrorists, (19 of the 20 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, the second largest supplier of oil to the US) we need the 2009 Federal Transportation Act to fund mass transit and cycling infrastructure, to allow us to be weaned off of foreign oil.
Fund cycling infrastructure as both an anti terrorist act and to improve the health of the nation... sounds like damn fine reasons to me.
How about you?