Should obese people pay extra money to solve their health problems?

Obesity and overweight are common in our days, should people who suffer it pay more than those who not?

 For it, we have the statement of phobia generated by obese people (a phenomenon explained by Richard Conniff to Men'sHealth in October 2010 under the name of "I hate fat people"), the main prejudices against fat people help to have a misconception of these health problems. In this hand, we also have that we eat less than in 1976 but more saturated fats as George Monbiot said for The Guardian this August. These arguments oust the common believing that eat more increase obesity.                                                                                Against, we have the study made by the Medical Journal of Australia, who has calculated the medical cost of overweight and obesity. The results reveal that most of the participants were over their "ideal" weight, with only a 24.7% of normal-BMI (Body Mass Index) people, and also reveals an annual cost of $2100 in 2005 per person. Those costs involve a great rise in government subsidies. The highest care costs are for obese and overweighted people with a reduction of 30% lower for those people who lost weight than for those who remained sick in this country( 2005).

In my opinion, the cost implicit on being obese or overweighted and the health problems supply the extra money, for me, they should pay as normal-weighted people does and everybody has to be aware at this subject which affects nowadays all of our countries.

Sources:

-Colagiuri, Stephen, Crystal M. Y. Lee, Ruth Colagiuri, Dianna Magliano, Jonathan E. Shaw, Paul Z. Zimmet, and Ian D. Caterson. ‘The Cost of Overweight and Obesity in Australia’. The Medical Journal of Australia 192, no. 5 (1 March 2010): 260–64. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2010/192/5/cost-overweight-and-obesity-australia

- Conniff, Richard. ‘I Hate Fat People’. Men’s Health, 19 October 2010.  https://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/a19524985/i-hate-fat-people/.

-Monbiot, George. ‘We’re in a New Age of Obesity. How Did It Happen? You’d Be Surprised | George Monbiot’. The Guardian, 15 August 2018, sec. Opinion.  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/age-of-obesity-shaming-overweight-people.