A couple of them specialize in health care because I also chair the Joint Economic Committee and we've been building models of what you can do to make health care more affordable, not through subsidies, but through technology. When 47% of US health care is estimated to be associated with obesity. why wouldn't we help our brothers and sisters get healthier? When 33% of U.S. health care spending is just diabetes, why wouldn't we help our brothers and sisters take that on and particularly pre diabetic populations. (08:10–08:16)
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Asserts that nearly half of US healthcare costs are linked to obesity.
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