| | Also in the news today in the OC Register, it turns out that healthy people cost too much.
Smokers and the obese, among other unhealthy populations, turn out to cost about $50K less in additional living and medical expenses as seniors in Denmark, if I recall correctly, due to living shorter lives.
Here in the U.S., some group commissioned a study on the potential societal impacts of increased longevity back in the '70's or early '80's. Turns out that many groups were actually opposed to life extension in general, such as life insurance and annuity providers, the Social Security administers, and in general all those who would expect to pay more out to a longer lived retired population.
By their logic, then, we should actually be subsidizing fat people's restaurant binges, offering them free cigars to go with the meal. As in Ira Levin's "This Perfect Day."
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