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Would it pay for the government to pay people for daily walking?
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@robertwills I can understand cyclists being incentivised to use their bicycles rather than their cars, A good way to keep carbon omissions down and getting motor vehicles off the road as much as possible. Similar with subsidising public transport costs.
I don’t expect to be paid by taxpayers to go for a walk! I don’t expect to be paid by taxpayers to stop eating “bad” food and to eat healthy food!
My health insurance company in Australia does offer free group outdoor fitness classes to its members. It also offers free dietary advice to its members.
It also sponsors an annual fun run (or walk) and provides training tips to help newbies compete over different distances.
Our various levels of government have also put a lot of money into bike and pedestrian infrastructure. We have great park trails and lots of open green space (with areas set aside for playgrounds) in our cities to encourage community to get outdoors.
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In the US people work and pay all their lives into a government medical system that benefits them in older age or before depending on circumstances. There is a near zero chance that this system could be done away with. But if the government paid people to walk the costs to everyone would be less, maybe substantially less, and the health of the population greatly increased, It's an idea worth considering. The sooner the better. I don't know how it is in Australia but about 70% or more of people here are overweight and like 30% are obese.