Obesity and health care in the US

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All of the above goes without saying in European health care systems. You get immediate treatment when you need it and you don't have to pay an additional dime to what your social security provides. They also provide preventive care systems. That's one of the answers why the US doesn't rank that good when compared internationally. Availability of health care or lack thereoff. Another would be the overall high costs per capita. In France they spend an average of about 4000 Dollars per patient, in the US, as far as I'm informed it's about 8000 dollars. Other factors are the actual positive or negative outcomes of treatments and life expectancy. It's a bit lower in the US than it is for example in most European countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...expectancy

So obesity alone certainly doesn't explain it.

For sure I am not saying that obesity alone explains it. That's definitely not what I'm saying. I'm just curious as to what the numbers would be like if we had Frances rates of obesity and they had ours. How big of an affect does it have on the system and on the cost?