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Overweight people already have their costs internalized: that's what your insurance rates are.

This is also actually tremendously fair, because if you're fat but don't suffer any lifestyle illnesses, then your insurance rates are low - you are actually able to support your mass. But once those conditions start ticking up, so do your insurance rates.

The US basically leads the way on addressing the social externalities of obesity as they relate to the healthcare system.



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