The country under single-payer will make former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda taxes and food-nannying look like child's play. Everything from your sugar consumption to your alcohol would become a matter of public regulation, and the public would not only have the power but also the moral right to regulate how people live.
Of the 2.6 million deaths in the U.S. per year, 300,000 are caused by obesity. It's one of the single greatest drivers of avoidable healthcare spending, costing the country around $200 billion annually.
Progressives may call this fat-shaming. But it's really just public health and economics.
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Of the 2.6 million deaths in the U.S. per year, 300,000 are caused by obesity. It's one of the single greatest drivers of avoidable healthcare spending, costing the country around $200 billion annually.
Progressives may call this fat-shaming. But it's really just public health and economics.
'Medicare for All' would require obesity laws
Proponents of "Medicare for All" often point towards European nations with universal healthcare systems to prove that single-payer could work here. The global ramifications of inevitably immolating our medical research and development aside, there's just one, massive elephant in the room that…
