Food pharmacies in hospitals could cut healthcare costs by incentivizing healthier eating. Ask AI Mark presents data showing how preventing heart attacks through better food choices could save billions in medical expenses.
Paint a picture and a vision for us of what it would look like to have food pharmacies in every hospital around America. Well, I mean, and how that would actually save us money. We think about giving things away and sometimes when people are libertarian or let's say that they're a little bit more like everybody should pull themselves up through the bootstraps and they should really be able to figure it out themselves. Tell us how some of the solutions in the book, like having a food pharmacy in every hospital would actually save us money.
I mean, this is not my opinion. This is just well validated scientific data that's been published around the world and it works. In just for example, one model of incentivizing.
Healthy prescriptions for people and.
Disincentivizing bad food. So cheaper to buy fruits and vegetables, more expensive to buy soda. When you do that and you put a 30% premium on soda and a 30% discount on vegetables, let's say. You would, if you did that at scale, it would save 3.1 million heart attacks and $100 billion in savings.
