What did the head of the American Hospital Association say Americans could do to lower medical costs?
The head of the American Hospital Association said Americans could lower skyrocketing medical costs by simply stopping the things that harm their bodies. He noted that roughly 70% of hospital beds were occupied by people there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal diseases.
Les explains that on Good Morning America, the president of the American Hospital Association was interviewed about medical costs that were just starting to escalate. When Joan Lunden asked what the American people could do to lower skyrocketing medical costs, the doctor replied that all they would have to do is stop doing the things that harm their body. He gave a statistic, roughly 70%, that hospital beds are occupied by people there because of drinking, smoking, or drugs, or venereal diseases. Les ties this to the Bible's warning that harming the physical body brings consequences, and that our hospital beds are filled with people who have abused their bodies with things we now know are harmful.