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It does impact healthcare spending. One solution would be to allow people to get as fat as they like as long as they give up the right to healthcare.
by barry-cotter 4y ago
It does impact healthcare spending. One solution would be to allow people to get as fat as they like as long as they give up the right to healthcare.
- anigbrowl 4y agoIt does, but that's a wholly different dynamic.
- presentation 4y agoIt doesn't need to be that extreme, giving up the right to healthcare would probably make things a hell of a lot worse (encourage people to not go to the doctor and then incur even more expenses). It seems that the incurred costs per capita for overweight/obese people is somewhere from $250-$2000 according to this study. [1] So we can use some combination of the carrot (reward people who are healthy) and the stick (tax/penalize people who aren't) and end up more or less in the same place. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891924/