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Want to learn how to save $6000 per year in health expenses? Allow me to tell you about an interesting article from Journal of the American Medical Association relating being overweight in young/middle age to Medicare expenditures in older age. The study looked at Medicare data from 1984-2002 with baseline data from 1967-1973 for 9978 men and 7623 women (ages 33-64) who did NOT have heart disease or diabetes and were either normal weight (BMI 18.5-24.9), overweight (BMI 25-29.9), obese (BMI 30-34.9) or severely obese (BMI>35). After the authors had adjusted for age, race, education, and smoking, they found some very amazing difference in annual and cumulative charges for men and women: