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Originally Posted by Scot,Jun 13 2008, 02:26 PM
Someone should... we all get stuck paying higher health insurance due to their higher bills, paying for ****ing stomach staples or whatever that shit is, etc........ i would imagine some people have even snuck into being "disabled" due to obesity (although maybe not labled as "obese").... i hear it is hard to walk when your pussy is below your knees....
Maybe if all businesses had surcharges for obesity that would help? I thought I remembered the airlines were going to do that??
Maybe if all businesses had surcharges for obesity that would help? I thought I remembered the airlines were going to do that??
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Originally Posted by vtec9,Jun 13 2008, 01:57 PM
We shouldn't be paying for their healthcare either.. our government isn't supposed to be a nanny..
I am pretty sure history shows fat people are medically more expensive than the normal sized folks (although there are so few normal sized people anymore it is probably hard to measure)...
how about a $200 surcharge per inch per year that goes into a pool to help pay for any future problems? You want to be fat.. you gotta pay extra...?
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Originally Posted by Backspin23,Jun 13 2008, 12:40 PM
Didn't an article come out not too long ago saying how the US would save XX billion dollars if people weren't so fat?
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/...ed.0050029&ct=1
Basically while not being obese saves money that would be spent on direct-costs of being obese, it also increases your lifetime which then causes an increase in costs which outweighs (ha..ha..) the decrease.
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Originally Posted by JustAyoungMC,Jun 13 2008, 03:27 PM
Actually one of the most recent journal publications showed this was not true:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/...ed.0050029&ct=1
Basically while not being obese saves money that would be spent on direct-costs of being obese, it also increases your lifetime which then causes an increase in costs which outweighs (ha..ha..) the decrease.
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/...ed.0050029&ct=1
Basically while not being obese saves money that would be spent on direct-costs of being obese, it also increases your lifetime which then causes an increase in costs which outweighs (ha..ha..) the decrease.