Which do you Favor and Why: Medicare for All or ACA expansion?

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48. Why is healthcare more expensive here?

We are pretty much the most obese country in the world, yet our life expectancy is pretty decent. There are people in poorer countries that are thinner because they do more intense physical labor and have less to eat, but many of those people die fairly young.

What we can do here. I am not going to double talk. We need to attack obesity the way that we attacked smoking cigarette and driving under the influence (which killed or seriously injured many people). We shy away from talking about weight and health because lots of people get bent out of shape over that focus. I was in a busy public place yesterday and I only saw FOUR people that were not overweight (other than me). Most of the people that I saw were young and morbidly obese. We need to get Physical Education and nutrition classes back in schools and not have them taught by clueless assholes, get skilled educators in those functions. Students should be required to take PE and nutrition classes until the 11th grade (by then the training should be a life choice). We should not allow fat shaming of people, but neither should we tolerate overeating and no exercise. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease combined are our number one killer by a large margin, both have a strong correlation to obesity (though both can be due to genetics at a lower level).