Millennials' escalating health problems raise economic concerns

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Millennials' chronic health problems could restrain the lifetime economic potential of a generation, a Blue Cross Blue Shield Assn. report finds.

More millennials in the United States are suffering from chronic health problems, potentially restraining the lifetime economic potential of a generation.

Without change, the effects of those trends could be game-changing for the United States and its economy, the report warned. U.S. healthcare costs are already high and climbing, on track to make up nearly 20% of gross domestic product in coming years.

The new report didn’t provide a precise estimate for the effects of worsening millennial health on U.S. economic output. Instead, it predicted the generation’s lower levels of health could eventually cost the oldest millennials more than $4,500 in annual income.Under the worst-case scenario, millennial healthcare costs could climb 33% compared with the prior generation, according to the report.

 

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what the fuck with this headline. That's the concern? Some easy solutions out there...

Kmarkobarstool

so decades of poor health care and poor education start to take their toll

Huh... Apparently if you live in a shitty dying world buried in debt with bad economic prospects, people are depressed. (Raising taxes on the rich would probably help)

Ok boomer

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