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Americans now spend twice as much on health care as they did in the 1980s

Loknath Das, , , , , , , , , , , ,

The average American household spent almost $5,000 per person on health care last year. That’s a 101% increase from the roughly $2,500 per person that Americans spent about 34 years ago in 1984, according to an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditures Survey by data company Clever. To make accurate comparisons, Clever adjusted all dollar amounts for inflation. It’s perhaps not surprising that health care expenses have risen over the past three decades. But the main driver of the increase is not drug costs or medical services. In…

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Health trips see highest spend

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Indians seem to have the wander-lust big time. Nearly every sixth Indian family went out on an overnight trip every month, adding up to 58 million trips. No less than 86% of these trips were for social reasons -to meet friends and relatives, perhaps on festive occasions. Some opportunities for an overnight trip came up only once in a year, like annual holidays or a serious illness in the family. These, when counted separately, added up to another 56 million trips over a year, with holidaying, leisure and recreation the…

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Spend Time With Nature to Shun depression

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A 30-minute stroll inside the woods every week can help lessen depression and high blood strain even as enhancing intellectual fitness, a observe on the college of Queensland has located.The findings showed that individuals who made long visits to green areas had decrease rates of melancholy and high blood strain and those who visited greater regularly had extra social concord. The take a look at, posted in the magazine Nature clinical reports, examines the institutions among the duration, frequency and intensity of exposure to nature and fitness in an city…

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