It is no secret that a ton of Americans are fat. Sorry, but somebody needed to say it (and I’m actually not sorry). This plethora of fat people is adding even more debt to the country. So maybe it is mean to call people fat but it is also mean to unnecessarily make tax rates go up too. 70 percent of adults in the United States are considered overweight, and this is a huge problem. ABC news reported on how the obesity rate increases the cost of health care and rates obesity as one of the leading causes of the overall increase in health care read more here.

Health insurance plans don’t cover obesity, but they do cover the other medical issues that obesity can cause like hypertension, type II diabetes, chronic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. In 1990, according to fairfoodnetwork.org, the government spent $107.9 billion on Medicare and $43.3 on Medicaid. In 2016 the government spent $589.72 billion dollars on Medicare and $365.525 billion dollars on Medicaid according to whitehouse.gov. This means that government spending on Medicare increased by 446.5% in 16 years, and Medicaid increased by 744.2% over the course of 16 years. Some of this increase came from natural factors that had nothing to do with obesity but some of it has to do with the fact that in 1990 only around 11% of people were obese compared to 2016 and almost one third of the population is obese.

Healthcare in 1990 cost much less and this can be attributed to the fact that now almost one in three Americans is obese. Obesity is not in right now. It is extremely unhealthy and body shaming isn’t real. Obesity is unhealthy and it kills over 300,000 people each year according to wvdhhr.org