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Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick by tapland on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:24PM (#19409660)
You are paying much more than anyone else[0]. I really doubt that's because of you being the 17th fattest country by BMI[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...

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Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick by i_am_proteus on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:07PM (#19410294)
Please note that the data you link does not address obesity and health costs simultaneously! Obesity is indeed a contributing factor, around 5% of total.[ξ] And from your references, the US has substantially more obeses and overweights per capita than the countries against which it is compared for health costs

[ξ]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449869/

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