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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn’t have this obesity problem 30 years ago. Cook your food. Stop buying processed food.  Stop wanting to use medication as a crutch. Pay $1K/month to get it. You want insurance to pay, right. That’s what you really meant.  Stop stuffing your face. Really exercise. Really. [/quote]

Yes! I see so many older women out with their daughters and the moms are all slim and the daughter's all overweight or obese!!! Americans got lazy. [/quote]

Yep. My mom sent a photo of --her, my brother and sister when we were 12, 15, and 17 and she was around 40-42 at the beach. My god we were so thin--though I never was thought of as 'thin'.  Even my mom was thin by today's standards and she wasn't one of the 'small' moms.  It was pretty crazy to see. That was the late 70s/early-mid 80s.  I can't remember a single fat person in my high school and the kids we thought were fat---were nowhere even considered chubby today.

My teen sons have always been very fit ---16 year old is too skinny. 18 year old all muscle.

My husband and I workout together all the time.  Today the 16 year old had off so he came to our crossfit-type gym class with us.

We always work out.  I was a college soccer player and ran marathons for years after. Then every kind of fitness fad there was. My diet ok--not a complete health nut.  Same weight since I was 25.

Husband is also an athlete.

Working out is like brushing your teeth in our family.  It's something to be done daily. And, if you don't you still get out and get fresh air.  We also buy groceries at Whole Foods and don't have soda or too much crap around the house.  Chips for the boys some, etc.[/quote]

And by the logic of this thread we should be obligated to subsidize an active lifestyle with a $1k/month stipend. Maybe buy a new carbon bike every five months. Makes total sense. [/quote]

I keep asking people like the two of you: WHY ARE YOU ON THIS THREAD? you don’t need the meds. This does not concern you. [/quote]

It does because you are demanding somebody cover your own expenses. Pay out of pocket and we don't care.  Demand extensive and subsidized access to these expensive medications and people are going to have an interest in that debate.

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Interesting.  If we are looking at this from a purely economic angle, then it follows that you should be in favor of coverage.
In the aggregate, obesity costs the American healthcare industry 260 billion dollars.  Interventions through medication prior to the onset of the obesity-related conditions should reduce that overall cost, particularly if demand increases and costs come down, as they should be expected to.

https://www.jmcp.org/doi/full/10.18553/jmcp.2021.20410

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