Incentivise healthy living!

While thinking about improving processes and practices in healthcare industry, it struck to me that prevention is better than cure! :-) leading to thinking about all the things that help us prevent ill health. Below are a few examples.

     ·       Bicycle and cycle rickshaws - promote good health, environment friendly and saves foreign exchange spent in importing petrol
     ·       Sports facilities and sports goods - promote good health, team work and social harmony
     ·       Gyms and gym equipment - promote good health
     ·       Fruit juices - help maintain good health and recover from illness
     ·       Yoga and Ayurveda

These are a few and there are more such things that boost health.

Many countries offer tax incentives for renewable energy like solar power as it is environment friendly. We also levy higher taxes on liquor and cigarettes as these are harmful for health. By the same logic, shouldn’t we encourage consumption of the items mentioned above which improve health and are environment friendly too, by reducing taxes on these things? If these items are cheaper, it will encourage the more people to use those and improve their health, leading to lower healthcare cost for the world.

Hope this makes sense for improving overall health of the population while reducing our unproductive healthcare costs.

Thank you for reading. Shall appreciate more thoughts/ideas.


Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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