[NotPavlovsDog]

If you're paying for insurance in the US you are paying for them. Check out how insurance pools work. Society, even a wild capitalist society, benefits from healthier members.

I'm a former professional athlete and am currently, in my middle age, in better shape than most, including youths in their 20s, with blood tests to prove it.

When I was making weight, it was extremely difficult to find the balance to fine-tune the diet. Those 400 grams for me were just as difficult to shed, while performing to task. And I had a professional team behind me.

Consumerist civilization is obsessed with the magic pill, we agree on that. A pharma subscription for life is not the solution. However, I personally know, and there are people like that commenting in this post, individuals that were unlucky to be born obese. If you are going to take a grand statement position, familiarize yourself with what that does to a hormonal system. And that is only one sub-case of many where obesity is completely outside of an individual's control.

With industrialized food, including sugar, HFC and carbohydrate lobbying corrupting the policy in the US for longer than 70 years, and that is a number simply of convenience, since we have easily accessible records of such industry lobbying, obese individuals are not the cause of the problem.

Having more tools to address obesity is a good thing. Hopefully, one arrow of many towards a systemic approach.