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<blockquote> My point is that it's an avoidable and largely unnecessary expenditure. Health care, for the most part is geriatric care. I'm 47 and I've spent a whopping $2500 or so on health care over the last 30 years, half of it on an unnecessary CAT scan (see post above). I'm lucky in this regard, but not that unusual. Factoring geriatric care in the same way as obesity is, to me, like saying car insurance would be cheaper if you never drove the car. I have no issue with paying what things cost, but when paying for avoidable things helps put the total cost out of reach, then it should be addressed. And yes, I include the bloated medical infrastructure here also. </blockquote> A health care system looks after people's health. I'm not sure how you would "address" fat people specifically. Refuse to cover them? Make them get that lapband surgery or whatever its called? People have health problems for all sorts of avoidable reasons. Drinking, not enough exercise, old sports injuries. I know more messed up old jocks than I can count, half of my friends have bad knees or hips it seems. I know at least 3 people who had repeat surgeries after skiing injuries. All avoidable. A weight trainer friend of mine says half of the old people who need daily care are just too weak to take care of themselves because they never exercised to maintain muscle mass. Another avoidable cost, I guess. In an ideal world a lot of costs would be lower, but so what? In an ideal world I'd have a flying car and a much bigger record collection.

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