I don't disagree with your proposal to alter our food subsidy policies. And obesity is definitely part of the problem. And yet. The US is more obese than any other OECD Country:
http://www.oecd.org/health/obesity-update.htm
But, even the fattest OECD countries don't spend close to the health care dollars per capita that we do. Australia is the second fattest, and spends less than half our per capita health dollar. Switzerland is among the skinniest, and yet has the third-most expensive health system.
https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
I'm not going to take the time to chart it, but I don't think there's much correlation between obesity rates and health spending, except that the US leads the league in both. Reducing obesity would absolutely impact US health spending, but by itself it would not get our spending anywhere close to the OECD average.
You can always edit/update them. The idea is to do it when you're young and healthy and of good sound mind.
Obesity is just one thing and there are plenty of obese people with low health care utilization. Focusing on only personal responsibility is a poor strategy. Let's look at environmental factors too. Yesterday's NPR On Point on the prevalence of lead poisoning was scary. There is too much victim blaming in our health care system.
cut off healthcare other than palliative care at life expectancy and offer euthanasia as a government funded option at their discretion, not life expectancy
cut off healthcare other than palliative care at life expectancy and offer euthanasia as a government funded option at their discretion, not life expectancy
You can't do this if healthcare is a right. Who loses rights with age? You don't like denying healthcare to the poors (classism) or minorities (racism). Why is ageism acceptable?
Energy should be spent on how to lower costs, so everyone can participate, instead of who are we going to deny bc we can't pay for everybody.
pretty sure the government also restricts our rights, some of them by age
so you believe it's sensible for nonagenarians to get organ and joint replacements ostensibly for free while a 27 old is potentially saddled with a massive debts for the same procedures
such as...