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It doesn't follow that fat people incur more medical expense just because they're less healthy. Most healthcare expense is incurred while elderly, and the young
by goodside 16y ago
It doesn't follow that fat people incur more medical expense just because they're less healthy. Most healthcare expense is incurred while elderly, and the younger you are when you die the less it costs to treat you throughout your life. With regards to tax revenue, the ideal time for you to die is right after retirement, and the obese come much closer to approximating this than the thin.
- mattrepl 16y agoGood, and bleak, point about dying once you retire. I wonder how retirement costs compare to lifelong cost of being obese. According to stats cited by the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/economics.html http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/economics.html) about 9.1% of medical costs can be attributed to treating conditions associated with being overweight or obese.
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