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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by dominotw on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:33AM (#32564696)
Its always the same answer. People stuffing their faces with garbage food and chilling on the couch all day. Apparently there was an explosion of obesity in UK during covid. These people clog up all the available supply leaving very little for the rest. Its the same story everywhere. Ppl whine about funding, shortages ect but no one cares about if we can do something about the demand.

Govt pushed covid vaccine on young healthy people saying its good for the community if we all get it and its our duty to society. So why isn't getting off the couch and going for a walk considered duty to society.

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by hadrien01 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:53AM (#32564951)
They did: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-ex...
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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by dominotw on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:57AM (#32565001)
lol. i don't see how this being marketed as duty to society like covid vaccine. No denunciation or shaming of voluntarily obese as a strain on society. No "COVID is a disease of unvaccinated" by the presidents.
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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by pjc50 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:52AM (#32566758)
The effects of obesity are wildly overstated, not to mention how many medical conditions it's irrelevant for. Especially in accident&emergency.
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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by dominotw on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:10PM (#32567929)
> The effects of obesity are wildly overstated

90% of health care costs are attributable to chronic disease in usa per cdc. [1]

Americans with five or more chronic conditions make up 12 percent of the population but account for 41 percent of total health care spending.

Hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes are top chronic conditions. Course of treatment for all those is "lifestyle changes" ( along with meds for managment). [2]

1. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm

2. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/tools/TL200/TL221...

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