You dont need the idiotic and vastly incorrct BMI to know being grossly overweight is detrimental to your long term health.
Wow! That must explain why my overweight maternal relatives only lived into their late 80s and 90s. But then again, why did my paternal normal weight relatives pass in their late 60s?
More Lysenko science.
Whatever the actuarial facts, obesity is not allowed to be counted against one... under Obamacare.
Too many fat people vote after all.
OK, so I only live to 103. Not too shabby.
Both obesity and life expectancy rates have been increasing in developed nations for the last 100 years.
So dig in -- and have another beer.
Fat chance of that happening.
What if we adjust SNAP and ACA accordingly.
If you are obese you obviously are eating too much. So you get a smaller SNAP benefit.
If you are obese you obviously will need more medical care. So raise your deductible, raise your co-pay, raise your premium.
Now how about doing the same for tobacco, alcohol, drugs, promiscuous sex and other lifestyle choices? Why should the rest of us subsidize your STI/STD?
If I get skinny do I get to pick the decade I can add to my life? Or does it have to be the last 10 years? I’d kinda really like to do the ‘70s over again...
Which decade?