Private Sector BurdenCost of Employee Health Care

• Tobacco Use Prevention Policy is sound economic policy

  • Currently, costs are shifted onto private sector

    • New Mexico burden $37.7 million each year in Medicaid funds on Tobacco Related illness
    • Smoking-caused productivity losses in New Mexico = $397 million
    • Total annual Medicaid costs are $143.9 million for tobacco-related illness.

• Healthy work force

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