> The Klim McPherson study you linked doesn't have any real conclusion and is focused on UK health, which might have different factors than US healthcare, which is privately run for the most outside of retirement.

Medicare is a public insurance scheme in the US, not private.

> None of your other cites calculate anything have to do with obesity costs in healthcare.

So you're dismissing one study ("Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs?") because it uses data from the UK and ignoring the other completely ("Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure") why? Both are expressly about calculating costs in healthcare.

You aren't even arguing against their methodology or conclusions, just dismissing their mere existence.

> I'm sorry but you sound like a typical fat acceptance advocate trying to skirt the issue.

Bring up facts backed by studies is "skirting the issue?" What exactly does addressing the issue head on look like?

I am following the science where it leads. You can paint that as an ideology but I'd suggest dismissing studies you don't like the conclusion of is more ideological than presenting them as is. The key difference is that my views can be changed with more data, seems like your views have already been made up prior to today and you'll dismiss counter-evidence at a hand wave.