One factor that helps keep medical bills down is that farm work and other manual labor keep Amish active for most of their lives, making them less susceptible to chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease that plague the often-sedentary U.S. population, said Bergen, the hospital executive.
Amish children are more susceptible to recessive genetic disorders, the result of a small and largely insular population.
As U.S. struggles with health reform, the Amish go their own way - Yahoo News
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