[jeanlucneptune]

Your solution to the healthcare crisis is just make everybody lose weight and all the problems of our system go away. You ever try to lose 10 pounds? 100? Spend some time in a general medicine clinic and come back to me.

[caeril]

No, all the problems wouldn't go away. But a healthy-weight population would cost roughly 64% less to treat, which implies a 64% reduced hospital congestion and workload. This could get offset somewhat as people die later in life of "old age" rather than chronic conditions or CVD events, but those costs would be much lower. So let's say a 50% reduction over the long run.

Yes, I am a former fatty who has kept it off for well over a decade now. It's really quite trivial to do.