Obesity and Insurance

There are varying degrees of obesity. This article is addressing it in it’s true sense of the word. Being a little overweight is far from morbidly or life altering obesity. The latter is what this article is addressing.

Obesity is a large problem in this country. The human body just simply was not designed for the kind of extra weight some people are carrying. The knees, hips, ankles, spine, lungs, heart and other body structures are under a lot of added stress. There are people that have a legitimate reason for being largely overweight. The reasons include things like thyroid problems and hypothalamus gland issues. This is a much smaller population than some want you to believe. Smokers pay higher insurance rates because they choose to engage in a activity that greatly increases their health risks. Obesity is a very risky behavior in terms of health and for those that don’t have a medical reason it is a choice. Joint replacements, blood pressure medications, gastric bypass, and there are many others, are procedures or medical consequences reduced or eliminated directly by a loss in weight. These medical expenses become shared by all of the policy holders. So you’re paying higher rates because of someone else’s lifestyle choice! Why is that any different than someone who smokes?

Two people who are equal in every way but weight, the one who is heavier will incur much more medical bills on average. It affects the entire system of the body. There are people that needed a second gastric bypass because they ate through the first. These are people that prove that it was the lifestyle and not another underlying reason that they were obese. Why should the other policy holders pay higher rates because of them? Satanism totally promotes indulgence, but there is a strict word against compulsion. There is a reason why you usually don’t see beasts in the field that are twice or more their average specie size. The fight or flight response becomes useless. It would prevent sustained running, sustained really anything physical, and not to mention how much intake would be needed to sustain that kind of mass. They would die acutely, get eaten, or not be able to get that way in the first place. It would make them slower than the others who are usually the weak, ill, or young. They are the least likely to survive. That as the example, the true nature of obesity is therefore illness or weakness if speaking from a nature point of view.

Most of us have some pounds to lose, or engage in activities that can potentially be detrimental if not taken in moderation. Drinking is a good example of this. As a society it seems we don’t put people into the category of needing more self control unless we’re talking about heroin or alcohol. Just as in these cases, the people need to be taught the consequences of overindulgence and moderation techniques.