>>How % of people people work out and sweat for 30-45 minutes each day to keep their health cost down and keep the doctor at bay?<<

which is the basis of the position i've taken from the beginning which is:

health CARE is one thing. (very high)

healt INSURANCE is another thing.

bring down the costs of health CARE and the premiums charged for health INSURANCE would come down correspondingly.

what would help to bring down the costs of health CARE?? start with:

tort reform

reduce the procedures prescribe merely to avoid the legal concerns of malpractice

reduce the advertising done by hospitals to promote their services. (i've never really understood why hospital advertising is necessary if so many people need care)

i AM in favor of a national program to consolidate personal HEALTH (not financial or other persona) records of citizens in order to reduce the costs of record keeping. (how many times should someone need to go thru "triage"?)

reduce those (as an example) health CARE costs and then see how much health INSURANCE would come down!!!

oh no!!! this bull@#$% congress tries to do it all once which makes nothing but a vegetable salad of the whole matter.