medium · GMAT Verbal
A clinic's 'exercise as medicine' program cut first-year chronic-disease costs for enrolled patients. The clinic projects large long-term savings if the program is scaled citywide. Yet realizing those savings depends on patients exercising for years, and the clinic's own records show that two-thirds of enrollees stopped exercising within eight months.
Which of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above?
- Scaling the program citywide would increase chronic-disease costs.
- The projected long-term savings may not be achieved, because sustained savings require continued exercise that most enrollees did not maintain.
- Exercise has no effect on chronic-disease costs.
- Patients who stopped exercising did so because the program was poorly designed.
- The clinic should replace the exercise program with medication.
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