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Health Insurance Makes You Fat

According to a Survey the individuals who are having health insurance are more likely to gain weight and become obese. According to their research which estimates the weight gain in terms of body mass index, a measure of weight related to height their study indicates that private insurance increases BMI by 1.3 points and public insurance increases BMI by 2.1 points.

Researchers say that fat people weigh the maximum tax payer’s finances.

A recent study revealed out that overall cost of obesity related health care treatment doubled in a decade which is growing faster than obesity rates, which went up to around 37% during the same time period. This new evidence isn’t simply a transfer of wealth from tax payers which are thin to overweight but gives an estimate of subsidy for obese people.

According to study, health care coverage encourages obesity as people tend to become careless about health and lead to gain in their weight when they know that insurance will cover at least cover of the weight related health costs which they may incur on.

Through various studies it revealed out that strong statistical evidence would increase up body mass index and obesity. So for U.S health care coverage rates for obese people are rising at alarming rates. But this is not the case only in United States.

Even in France obesity and generous state insurance makes a toxic mix for fiscal budgets. The various habits like processed food and sedentary lifestyle are eroding the skinny French women to chubby ones. The rising obesity rates have added great amount of costs to state health insurance budget.

With the adult obesity growing at 6% annually the French could be as fat as Americans. As of recent report the obesity health care costs in France amounted to between two to six billion euros nearly equal to that of Americans.

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