Employers share some of the blame for rising health care costs, but they also have the ability to dramatically cut those costs with a few simple steps, according to a speaker at the 2012 Employer Health & Human Capital Congress in Washington.
With the ever increasing cost — about 18% of GDP today — everyone wants to blame someone, Wally Gomaa, president of Dallas-based consultancy ACAP Health, told attendees Tuesday during the 7th annual show. But when the cost data is overlaid with obesity rates, “maybe we need to point the fingers at ourselves a bit,” he said. “As health care spending went up, obesity went up [at nearly] the same rate.”
