In the US, roughly 80% of medical costs are from chronic illness, and roughly 80% of chronic illness is caused by obesity. So it stands to reason that ~64% of

In the US, roughly 80% of medical costs are from chronic illness, and roughly 80% of chronic illness is caused by obesity. So it stands to reason that ~64% of those medical debt bankruptcies are nobody's fault but their own because they refused to put down the twinkies. I love how everyone loves to denigrate the health coverage situation in the US but fails to account for how fucking fat and lazy we are. There is no political solution for our unique problems, short of public hangings of food industry executives and mandatory rationing, both of which are anathema to the American Zeitgeist. Single-payer healthcare would only make the problem worse, as it would increase the moral hazard to stuffing our faces.