He showed that the policies had stimulated new investment and employment fast enough to more than make up the federal revenue lost in tax cuts, an effect they would not have had if the economy were already healthy and unemployment were low.
But it didn't extend the lives of mice that were already healthy in one study.
These were already healthy guys, and they were definitely GUYS -- Texas fire fighters!
Companies that are already healthy might even begin to borrow again.
At Mac's Cards in Vernon, business was already healthy a half hour after doors had opened on a recent weekday.
Health care, by contrast, has little effect on the productivity in a wealthy country like the United States because the population is already healthy enough to perform its work, economists say.
In addition to "focusing on the top of the pyramid, people who are already healthy and active," Mr. Abend said, there is growth to be gained in the category by paying attention to "all those folks trying to connect, to get started".
If you were a patient in intensive care, sick and in pain, what would you say to a doctor whose only recommendation was cutting off your blood supply, meals, therapy and redirecting your pain medicine to another patient who was already healthy and well?
However, as Campos et al. note the relationship between use of nutrition labels and healthier diets is probably bi-directional with those whose diets are already healthier diets being more likely to use them, but also that appropriate labelling can promote healthier eating.
Programs that reward people for good behavior may be singling out those who were already practicing healthy habits, while those that penalize workers for bad behavior may be unfairly singling out the very people who need lower health care costs.
He says that most of the nearly 700 patients in the study had already been treated with statins for 7 to 10 years, so their arteries were already fairly healthy, leaving little room for improvement due to addition of the new medicine.
