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.
The first number crunching exercise you might try is validating that "increased cycling" in the population actually does lead to
decreased obesity and illness in the population. Ya know, real numbers and real people and real decreases in obesity/illness as a result of "increased cycling." BTW how much "increased cycling" is required before the
staggering cost of obesity is affected?