What percentage of hospital beds are filled by people there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal disease?
Approximately 70% of all hospital beds are occupied by people who are there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal diseases, according to a statistic cited in the context. This figure was given by a doctor discussing rising medical costs.
Les explains that a doctor—identified in the transcript as the president of the American Hospital Association—was interviewed on Good Morning America about skyrocketing medical costs. When asked what Americans could do, the doctor said they would only need to stop doing the things that harm their body. He then gave a statistic, which Les recalls only in general terms, that something like 70% or so of all hospital beds are occupied by people there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal diseases. Les ties this to the biblical principle that abusing the physical body with harmful things brings consequences, whether alcoholism destroying the liver or cigarettes damaging health, and says the hospital beds filled with such people illustrate that truth.