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According to a recent study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, there’s a new reason to fully wash and/or cook your meals. Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, add about $152 billion to annual health care expenses.
That figure is for the United States alone! Obviously, health insurance plans pass the cost of treating those illnesses onto you. Minor changes to the way we eat and prepare our food and drink could cut significant costs out of our health bills.
Healthcare reform, eat your heart out!
Tags: e.coli, food poisoning, food-borne illness, health insurance, health insurance plans, healthcare reform, salmonella
