The greater irony is that most cases of obesity (discounting, for instance, thyroid problems) are due to personal health-related choices: I choose to eat potato chips instead of getting off the computer and cooking a healthy meal, or instead of going outside for a walk. Obamacare makes the state your own “private” health supervisor/enforcer, thereby removing that choice. It would not surprise me at all to see Obamacare mandate certain target weights, body mass indices, etc, and punish those who can’t hack it.
Choice: that IS the problem with obesity, as it is with drugs, booze, candy, couch potato-ism.
MOST human beings take the LOW road, the EASY path, the path of LEAST resistance. They all know better. Obese people often stay home because they WEAR their gluttony and sloth--with their XXXlarge size.
Side note: My husband and I were in a Walmart type store in Hawaii, the big island. We were looking for big Hawaiian shirts for him: XX.
At the rack for the X sizes there were twoX to EIGHT X. There are some big boys over there.