Cost of obesity in dollars

What's choking our health care system? Simply the money or lack of it.

The high cost burden is on the people who can afford it and are paying for the ones who do not have insurance or can't afford them. Who are these people who cannot afford? People on social security, who eat McDonald's and other fast foods that just make them obese which in turn results in most of the health-related problems.

Can you believe these numbers? In addition, to the earning popoulation that contributes toward the medical insurance, the US spends about 160 billion on health care directly related to obesity. That is a lot of money that can be channeled to something like education, for instance. The people who don't care about their health and eat junk everyday need to be educated and that's where some of these billions should go rather than for paying to treat them.