Tax incentives for healthy lifestyles

I think there should be a tax benefit to those who choose to live healthy ,and try to stay out of hospitals and off pharmaceutical drugs .
Health needs to be incentivized to reduce cost across the board for people . It’s not fair that our insurance rates are so high even if we take care of ourselves to cover the cost for those who don’t wish to take care of their health

Not entirely disagreeing, but not entirely agreeing either.
The problem I see with these things is that defining what to incentivize institutionalizes solutions that work for some people and excludes equally effective methods used by others.

Fairly certain that my daily workout of “farm chores” isn’t making the list of things that get incentivized. Fairly certain that “running, cycling, and gym workouts” would be candidates for incentivizing, but they’re never going to be on my list of things-I-can-do-in-a-day.

Diet is another area to look at - how would you even evaluate that? And who decides what’s “healthy”? If I eat low-fat, low-ish protein, high-grain/carb, I’m literally a dead person - it’s a significant source of what issues I have and eating the opposite - high-fat, high protein, very-low-carb, no-gluten, almost no grains - is quite literally saving my life and has vastly improved my health.

How do you pick what to incentivize?

And BTW, despite my (now receding) health issues, I’m still in the “NEVER in my life has my yearly health expenses exceeded my deductible” group, and I don’t use any insurance benefits (such as prescription subsidies). And I’m 100% certain I wouldn’t qualify for any standard government-issued list of “healthy lifestyle”, and that would exclude me from tax benefits, even though I use zero insurance benefits.

So, while I agree we need to be healthier, and should find ways to support this, I’m not seeing how this would work.

If I’m missing your point, please help me out with some examples.

Eliminate IRS so people can keep their money and live a healthy lifestyle.

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