there's just published a new article-id obesity in america and of course you
guys are to know that it's a growing issue however now we have a actual
figures uh... that let us know how much we're spending on the medical costs of
obesity
uh... according to writers it's about one hundred ninety billion dollars a
year in excess medical spending
if using radical so this is something that we've talked about
so many different times jane and there's always this question about whether or
not the government to find a way to regulate the behavior of people rate
should be tax
of soft drinks should be and
charge those who are obese more as employers for their health insurance
they're all these questions coming about
it's incredible when you look at these numbers and how much of an impact it's
having
the way businesses art shaped like for instance cars and burning nearly a
billion gallons of gasoline more year dennis passengers wade what they did in
nineteen sixty
that's on the state
uh... arafat asses little cost them more money
can do this for report on the set no not yet not yet home i have many facts and
figures so they go into details i into happy absenteeism at work and how
you know i i i p effects their outperform in somewhere
uh... it turns out that of course people who are obese not overweight but obese
take more six days so more sick days a year uh... for the most obese
firm and they take about five point nine days off but you cheering for women it's
nine point four days off and this is due to obesity related illnesses and then
also obesity related absenteeism costs importers as much as six point four
billion dollars a year
now good news for going out and i a at night
at
island that when it comes to productivity we find out that the burial
beasley
as one month of productive work per year costing employers an average of three
thousand seven hundred ninety two
purvey reopens male worker and three thousand thirty-seven per female
total annual cost of presidency isn't due to a b city is thirty billion
dollars yeah killers act you know if you are obese it affects the amount of money
you get paid a especially affects women
because of the swim and at about eleven percent last
added women of the healthy weight janet's cousin i showed up at work
the pledges other it's that's a neighborhood
right and i cannot discrimination has a lot to do it as well
we've done stories about how i a m overweight workers are usually paid less
than their spelled evaluation because they don't have to look as much yeah
bike now
time harmonies of report done
what is now the section they re cell and his white house
and not by
pointed out
do i believe the facts yes birthday i'm now bill reilly understand facts okay
uh... now
the read what i am mean by that is
am i going to judge people based on their weight all my got across employers
six point four billion in the thirty billion dollar out of water although i
don't know it was a it's costing
all americans so much money reject because it's not just a little piece
that more on their health costs and players that were on their insurance now
weeping
higher premiums in our health insurance in order to pay the cost of treating
those who work will be who are cuddly hippies are good
okay so
billiad duplicate whether to steady the almighty god that the anorexia fees i
don't remember it is
all i got to get cancer but was she slowly i don't know it's charger i wanna
breyer please
all my daddy got run over by a car he was a pay enough attention i don't want
to be his fees everybody i don't think it is ready but how it's not on an
island lost and i got a that employees employees
first off i don't care adderall right beside a wall if he or she is not doing
their job
on out there
sit there and take it apparently have the like
i don't think there are now living out on it but give your fat ass is a short
of the workable fired a good hair the furthest thing from looking out at this
very minute but i couldn't get it
so i
i'm not taking the fact this into consideration of all that's my ruling i
don't think we should get into judge in people's lives
if you're not working
that i got u_s_a_ saturday for u_n_
okay
is important for professor
i say ltd
a glass house let's keep it real notices are much more complicated issue than
you're giving a credit for
write your own because whatever the question of taxing sodas or sugary foods
are ever comes up your guests regex so what what do you propose a solution to
this problem v
because obviously continues to be a huge issue in fact
uh... the number of obese people in the united states has tripled since nineteen
sixty wid
mandated by listed
here so that their proposals that i would have a personal pushing for the
people who i think that the other side work that's that's not true with the
right market as it does work for example we did in enormous marking campaign
against
tobacco and people smoke all lot less though
saying that what you want to get into regulating
high fructose corn syrup
well then we'll have a conversation that make sense to me say
hey you know what that's having a lot of calories and it's a but it's the same
sugar is just something a little cheaper
that is leading the world b c writing that's an interesting conversation
and one worth considering
but when you get to anything where an employer or the government
isn't it the king your personal life and what your heating in nineteen it's big
brother i'm not gonna do
after you know you're voting don't think you'll be asked you know what you have
just this period
antiques and estaba on-line banking and understand what you lady
uh... people's lives in terms of i think they were male government i think the
government should regulate businesses right handshake regulate the food
industry for instance was the f_d_a_ doing
like we have crap in our chicken
uh... we have a literally like what we're we're eating chicken that's been
fed like antibiotics things that are very very much unhealthy for us i think
that separate you as a cop out because as a separation us on this so that was
leading to a piece of
but it does lead to abuse the things like that lead to abuse the wherewithal
another key developing on that's easy dupont or the hartford if you're in for
every other government
are you get a tax this is a softer less more organise a but yes i am i'd on
healthy food in tax more isn't employer if you've got those weight issues u_s_a_
are a bit of a came over your shoes
i think that unhealthy food should be treated similarly to uh... tobacco
right there should be accused campaign out there as a case in campaign
that lets people know how one helping these things i want
i think that might sound so stupid to you guys right but remember last friday
we did a story about a woman who filed a class-action lawsuit against nutella
because she thought that the advertisements that segment tells
healthy were true
she thought that i was browsing ok help cleaning and i know but come on what do
you see where they say haiti dumbass let's have a nice time helping it goes
further than that i don't wanna i don't wanna denies the people who are union
healthy foods
we need to regulate the industry right and another problem is and you got to be
the last time i mentioned it but it's twelve elite ranching
their lesson last areas for people to walk with americans don't want anyone i
drank that's another isn't sure more at at one of our support more walking paths
okay now this free and open it up to the court more axes cared so moved by this
user with himself
in the supreme court on this issue there
just visiting the supreme court uh...
yep i i'd say overall i'd i'd
barge lead really eugenic inspires you can
there's no way to regulate individual people but i think the do at the cost
that we're talking about in this article r_d_ product uh...
uh... of this of late years of of incentives reading more and more toward
a sedentary lifestyle crap your crap your food and basically what you talk
about as far as industry capturing government i think we've got you know
the food industry does does it as well and so the
now cheapest calories to maker like the worst for use only write has no just as
the legal that issue has already been decided i'm not even opening up for a
vote
said no brainer we already capacity issue you're right on the specifics of
taxing somebody more for the yes thank you can do it it's you can't do it it's
not it's not fair did to do that's people
because the society has incentivize them to basically
the that but doesn't it turns out our city chase incentives in the society but
there are a within an overloaded
teacher society you've really that this is going on
yeah it's hard to rule against that because like at the end of the people
meet their free world
you can
tak from further yet alright justice jackson at www to see if i will get any
support for justice buried here
you can't accept the whole thing infants will move things i mean
that's unhealthy and as many reasons people and
parts of the big one for and what about people who you know my recent
dua i'm not okay
handles every once in awhile right now at there were some chance that we should
have had the suspects recuse himself from the states
uh... because he's goodbyes for the fact that he eats like a nice all day long
and obviously my two nights would be the person taxed in terms of products
they're bad for you presidency just dex is doing alright
so now look anna i hear what you're saying bit i'd just think that gift
this country is spending an additional one hundred ninety billion dollars a
year
in health costs for the obese right
doesn't make sense to tax them at a higher rate because they're contributing
to this issue
whiteside pay more for my interest payments and the iraq and all that
they're people have
genetic illnesses that contribute to obesity and those people should be
exempted those types taxes right but i just don't think it makes sense for us
to sit back and the outlook corporate work to keep
i wait all day long copywriting right now
okay
i think i know i gotta keep my health under control and i don't expect other
people to pay for my mouth it's called the short and sweet salty in the
insurance
and looked you know we'd all do our best idle in the p people's life again at
there's some things that are clear enough with a as boys again what about
tobacco
we tax that more we have special rules against that
but tobacco is almost no benefit
and its pull all you know health-wise
delsa right forest food is much more arguable
jedi dole that crappy photo that was it doesn't hurt as overall
so the indirect tax him or since we're speaking about tobacco i also found the
statistic
incredible it is from the mayo clinic it's s local added about twenty percent
a year to medical costs albeit city was similar but morbid obesity increased
those cost by fifty percent a year
there really isn't economic justification for employers offer
programs to help
the very albee's lose weight on at those or uh...
very good points
you brought a lot facts of this justice despairing nonetheless you've lost
portal are often the i'm the supreme court has ruled
sad day for you and for all of you out there
looking out at all worked out for you throughout we've already seen how it
works that now that well