Dig this.
Republicans refuse to lower healthcare costs. Older Texans that are too young for Medicare will be hit the hardest.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) November 12, 2025
Theresa Hebert is one of the more than 3 million Texans who rely on healthcare subsidies. Without ACA tax credits, her premium will cost $1,000/month. pic.twitter.com/FPwhYLVAQY
She's fat. She knows she's fat. We know she's fat. We all know she's going to slorp down a lot more medical resources than she would if she took care of herself, but she doesn't. If she paid a much higher percentage of her own health care costs, she might. As long as she gets her treatments for free or almost free, she's not going to be as motivated to get healthy. As a consequence, open your wallets, boys and girls.
And don't get me started about obesity in the black community. 4 out of 5 black women are obese. When I was in Jackson, MS a while back, it was simply stunning to see the enormity, ha ha, of the problem. I went to a mall, trying to find a camo Ole Miss hat and I swear, every single store entrance was effectively single file because of the boxcar-sized black women going in and out of them.
"We all know she's going to slorp down a lot more medical resources than she would if she took care of herself"
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily. Dying abruptly of a heart attack or stroke can be pretty cheap. Especially if it happens so fast that there is no time to get the person to a hospital. And an abrupt death like that is certainly cheaper than dying slowly of senile dementia in a memory care facility over a period of years. Or a lingering death from cancer while getting multiple operations and chemotherapy. Both of which are way more likely if you live a longer time than if your heart gives out in your late 50s or early 60s.
I'm not so sure about the overall point of your post, either. It comes across as, "It is important that fat people suffer the full consequences of being fat, and so it is OK to make sure that health care is expensive for everybody just to make sure that the fat people suffer appropriately." Is that really what you meant to say?