Will US healthcare collapse under the rising costs of obesity?

[Just_Ken]

Who will pay for it to be free?

Too many obese people in the US for a National insurance type scheme to be enacted. Healthcare has to bd paid for by someone and the way any insurance scheme works is that the majority of people dont use it, the more that use it the more expensive it is.

America needs to deal with the obesity crisis as the healthcare system is collapsing under the weight of obesity and obesity related illnesses, as is the welfare system and of course the huge environmental problem of obesity

[strateguy632]

but as i like to say: the whole fun of personal freedom is we can drink beer until livers rot. smoke cigaret until our lungs are coal. and eat until one person fills the whole park bench. government can't interfere.

so medicare will collapse due to careless people. need more budget but the budget is also for other stuff. schools police agriculture and fighting enemies and even tourism is more important than helping someone who does not help themself but harms their own health.

if insurance tells a smoker 'pay more because you smoke' he will lie he doesn't smoke or stop insurance.

[DryGermanGuy]

There have been several initiatives to lower the sugar and fat contents of highly-processed food in America. Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, anyone remembers? So far they have been met by those freedom-loving 'Murricans with all the strenuous opposition they could muster on their way to the vending machines. 🙄

[FreyaRed]

Let fast food companies participate with 30% in obligatory national healthcare insurance every employer has to pay for legal and illegal employees.
I'm pretty sure this would be the biggest outcry in US history, when they have to pay for their crimes against humanity.

[Just_Ken]

So they should add 30% on to food prices?

[sage2021]

Maybe they should 🛑 stop putting so much crap in our food that causes obesity.

The American government is who will make healthcare collapse! Not obese people!

[Just_Ken]

When you choose to eat 4-5 times more than what an adult should consume each day and choose to eat bad food what do you expect.

[sage2021]

@Just_Ken

I eat like a bird and I weigh more than I should.

[choco-latte]

That’s true. I’ve heard of plenty of people that actually lost weight once they moved abroad for some time without changing anything in their routine diet, while in the US it’s hard for many people to lose weight even by good diet and exercise. I’m sure some people really are just careless but it’s not always that and the government has a lot of fault too.

[Just_Ken]

@choco-latte yes choosing better food

[Sevenpointfive]

you can take some from SNAP. that system is wildly abused. a lot of fraud happens and if they'd get on top of that then they would have enough. a lot of NGO's do nothing at all but still siphon money from us. if we gave up giving foreign aid we could have it paid for right there. it's time to prioritize our own people.

[Jersey2]

No. It will suffer under mismanagement, inefficiency and fraud. Fix that and you will cut 70% I would guess out of the current cost.

GLP-1s will help people lose weight and it is working well now. This will become less expensive as time goes on. More products like it will be developed as well.

[fishbone77]

maybe food costs going up is a good thing to get people to eat less?

[Just_Ken]

Probably yeah.

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

Hence the reason we need to eliminate all social safety nets. Safety nets create carelessness.

[DonaldDarko]

They'll just pump them full of that Ozempic shit. They'll lose all the weight and the funeral industry will make some money off the rest.

[Shiprex]

I think more people will die instead of the system crashing.

[darkcloud1945]

Could it be possible that the tens of millions of illegals on free healthcare could be the cause of the high prices? More so than obesity.

[Anonymous]

Your president is a fat slob. Who pays for that? He should lead by example.

[Staximus]

my friend’s daughter called me “Obeast” hahaha

[exitseven]

It is definitely a drain on the healthcare system.

[strateguy632]

today i found the dsa unofficial response r to this question. yes obesity adds undue strain on health system. yes if health care is free for obese it will be a strain but!
under socialism food shortages caused people to lose more than 20 kg. this is a fact and the unofficial reply to obese claim. people won't be obese after food shortages.

[exitseven]

@strateguy632 I went to Nova, Scotia a out 20 years ago. The seafood was good but not very plentiful and the fruit was a lot smaller than what we get in the US. i ordered a steak and it was as big as a hockey Puck

[exitseven]

I also noticed that there were not many obese people

[canamlusciouslad73]

Yes, likely by 2040 if not sooner.