Show me the statistics that people like me are such a huge drain on the health care system, go ahead - I want to see them - not just your concern trolling you made up Show me the statistics that people like me are such a huge drain on the health care system, go ahead - I want to see them - not just your concern trolling you made up  Those fat fucks constantly claim that their gluttonous obesity only affects themselves, here are cold hard facts that prove otherwise. Obesity-related medical treatment costs between $147 and $210 billion a year.  Of the $147 billion, Medicare and Medicaid are responsible for $61.8 billion. Medicare and Medicaid spending would be 8.5 percent and 11.8 percent lower, respectively, in the absence of obesity.2 Obese people spend 42 percent more on healthcare costs than healthy weight people. Childhood obesity alone is responsible for $14.1 billion in direct costs. The obese are absent from work more often than people of healthy weight. The most obese men take 5.9 more sick days a year; the most obese women, 9.4 days more. Obesity-related absenteeism costs employers as much as $6.4 billion a year   The very obese lose one month of productive work per year, costing employers an average of $3,792 per very obese male worker and $3,037 per female. Total annual cost of presenteeism due to obesity: $30 billion.   Obese men rack up an additional $1,152 a year in medical spending, especially for hospitalizations and prescription drugs, Obese women account for an extra $3,613 a year.    The researchers found even higher costs among the uninsured: annual medical spending for an obese person was $3,271 compared with $512 for the non-obese.   Nationally, that comes to $190 billion a year in additional medical spending as a result of obesity, or 20.6 percent of U.S. health care expenditures.   Extra medical costs are partly born by the non-obese, in the form of higher taxes to support Medicaid and higher health insurance premiums. Obese women raise such "third party" expenditures $3,220 a year each; obese men, $967 a year.   "Obesity added about 20 percent a year to medical costs, but morbid obesity increased those costs by 50 percent a year".   The new performance testing proposed by transit officials for buses, assuming an average passenger weight of 175 instead of 150 pounds, arise from concerns that heavier passengers might pose a safety threat. If too much weight is behind the rear axle, a bus can lose steering. And every additional pound increases a moving vehicle's momentum, requiring more force to stop and thereby putting greater demands on brakes. Manufacturers have told the FTA the proposal will require them to upgrade several components. "Growing obesity rates increase fuel consumption," It requires twice as much energy to move 250 pounds than 125 pounds. As a result, a vehicle burns more gasoline carrying heavier passengers than lighter ones.  An additional 938 million gallons of gasoline each year due to overweight and obesity in the United States, or 0.8 percent. That's $4 billion extra.     Hospitals, too, are adapting to larger patients. The University of Alabama at Birmingham's hospital, the nation's fourth largest, has widened doors, replaced wall-mounted toilets with floor models able to hold 250 pounds or more, and bought plus-size wheelchairs (twice the price of regulars) as well as mini-cranes to hoist obese patients out of bed.   As America's waistline expands, costs soar Increasing Obesity Requires New Ambulance Equipment.