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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by tachion on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:40PM (#18718729)
It's not true that people's health is their own concern. Especially not when my taxes pay for your treatment when you've deliberately not taken care of yourself and not when your lack of regard in this manner promote similar thing happening to other people (children, for example).
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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by lordCarbonFiber on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:42PM (#18718764)
If you're actually concerned about "your taxes" you should celebrate the over weight and otherwise unhealthy. The lion's share of health care costs are end of life treatments; don't have to worry about those if you die of a heart attack at age 45.
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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by thosakwe on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:45PM (#18718800)
Besides, I think taxpayer dollars are being spent on things that are far more shocking...

The U.S. leads the world in military spending, has one of the largest incarceration rates per capita, and is floating around the idea of a new border wall, and you're mad about... People not being skinny...?

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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by tachion on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:00PM (#18718969)
Not everyone lives in USA, you know. ;) And I'm not mad, far from it, I'm simple pointing out the argument was false.
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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by oftenwrong on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:04PM (#18719005)
>The lion's share of health care costs are end of life treatments; don't have to worry about those if you die of a heart attack at age 45.

Well, you do still have to worry about those, but earlier than expected.

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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by learc83 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:48PM (#18722587)
Overweight people are actually cheaper to care for in the long run.

"Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures."

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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