Cost of Obesity Approaching $300 Billion a Year

There is something way wrong when the cost of the cancer of obesity is more than the cost of the cancer of cancer. (see post below)

The total economic cost of overweight and obesity in the United States is $270 billion per year while the cost in Canada is about $30 billion a year, a new study shows.

The $300 billion total cost in the United States and Canada is the result of: increased need for medical care ($127 billion); loss of worker productivity due to higher rates of death ($49 billion); loss of productivity due to disability of active workers ($43 billion); and loss of productivity due to total disability ($72 billion), said the Society of Actuaries (SOA).

All this for diseases of choice.

The rest of us should choose not to pay for the rescue of the fat.

Fight back.