Pleasing to see that the Soft Drink Tax proposed by Grattan and 'public heath' fascists is getting all the scorn which it so richly deserves
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Replying to @PeterPhelpsMLC @BernardKeane
works overseas. Why don't you post how much diabetes costs Aust's public health system each year?
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Replying to @G8sthn
Type 1 or Type 2? Don't try to mislead the argument.
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Replying to @PeterPhelpsMLC @BernardKeane
length of stay&cost are greater for patients with diabetes than for those without 2/2- http://www.uptodate.com/contents/management-of-diabetes-mellitus-in-hospitalized-patients …
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But lifetime health costs for obese are lower than for healthy people. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html …
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Replying to @PeterPhelpsMLC @BernardKeane
haha- 2008 article- obese save public health costs by dying earlier than healthy people- they must love that!
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Replying to @G8sthn
But it is true - and backed up by a subsequent Dutch study too. So the 'health cost' argument is pure BS
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and better addressed via a price signal in the health system
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Replying to @BernardKeane @PeterPhelpsMLC
that's the end of the process, better at beginning as with tobacco. Youth smoking in WA down to single figures
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