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FLUFFYGERM posted...

For me, any serious conversation on funding universal healthcare is a non-starter until smoking and obesity are resolved.

Let's say 5% of the obese population has a legitimate health issue that makes it hard for them to lose weight. The remaining 25% of that annual health expenditure is so catastrophically high that we shouldn't rush into Bernie's plan to have us subsidize that bullshit with our own labor.

That'd be immensely unfair.

Currently insurance companies contribute towards the issue of overpriced healthcare, so if a plan could be made that reduced those costs(and any plan that doesn't wouldn't be worth considering in the first place), it could offset some of the fat people issues. There would need to be some way to get extra money from them though, I agree with that.

Maybe we could have health care providers charge obese people. Like if you are obese, then their systems will indicate that you need to pay a co-pay, while if you are not, you don't.
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