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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 these statements?
- Scaling the program citywide would, on balance, end up increasing rather than reducing total chronic-disease costs across the whole population over time.
- The projected long-term savings may not be achieved, because sustained savings require continued exercise that most enrollees did not maintain.
- Exercise has no measurable effect whatsoever on the chronic-disease treatment costs of the individual patients who enrolled in the clinic's own program.
- Patients who stopped exercising within eight months did so chiefly because the clinic had designed its overall program rather poorly.
- The clinic ought to abandon its current exercise program altogether and instead replace it with medication for enrolled patients.
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