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18 Aug 09
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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[O]besity – and especially child obesity - is at least as proper a subject of government concern from a conservative point of view as single parenthood.
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Yet obesity also creates a demand for government programs, even more directly and expensive than the costs of single parenthood. Here’s a paper from the Texas Department of Human Services that estimates that Type 2 diabetes accounts for 9% of the state’s Medicaid budget, about $192 million per year. If diabetes continues to increase at the current trend line, by 2030 the disease will consume somewhere between 13% and 20% of the state’s Medicaid budget.
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