Who hurts the US Healthcare system worse?

Medical school is expensive, but only about 1/3 of the typical school loan is for tuition. The typical student starts accumulating school debt turing undergraduate school. Can't blame that on medical schools.The overwhelming bulk of all school loans including medical school is living expenses, and some of that is from students leaving exorbitantly.

True, at least in some fashion, but probably a bit misleading.From the American Diabetes Association:
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-myths/

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Myth: Eating too much sugar causes diabetes.

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Fact: The answer is not so simple. Type 1 diabetes is caused by genetics and unknown factors that trigger the onset of the disease; type 2 diabetes is caused by genetics and lifestyle factors.

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Being overweight does increase your risk for developing type 2 diabetes, and a diet high in calories from any source contributes to weight gain. Research has shown that drinking sugary drinks is linked to type 2 diabetes.

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I think it is fair to say that being overweight is not 'The' cause, because heredity factors are involved. However being overweight is a risk factor.

I note that in your anecdote that your wife's tuition was less than half of her school loan. That kind depends on what you think a student's standard of living ought to be. I wouldn't give my kids 25k per year while they were attending school. I understand that graduate and medical students don't want to live like undergraduates. I'm not so sure why we should not expect them to.My own experience while attending law school is that some of my contemporaries were piling up 100-150k of debt during a three year period. Tuition at the time was chewing up something less than 50k for the three years at some of the better law schools.When I attended grad school after leaving the military, I did live like a refugee in order to make ends meet without working. I didn't incur any debt. Perhaps people don't do that anymore.I'm not really challenging crashfrog's idea that medical school is too expensive, although I'm not all that sympathetic to his issues with unpaid internships.

Being obese is risky health behavior. That's not the samething as saying the obesity is a proxy for health. I am not going to argue that BMI is a perfect indicator of obesity.Is it your opinion that the American Diabetic Association is wrong about obesity being a risk factor for type 1 and 2 diabetes? If not, then I don't understand your point.

* not well researched *Edited by NoNukes, : deleted

Is this the right comparison? The older person who was once the 25 year old fat kid is probably statistically more likely to be a health problem. I think you could make the argument that a person who makes legal choices to be unhealthy is acting immorally. While it would be immoral to deny such a person health care, a different question is whether it would be immoral to make such a person pay more for his/her care? We do ration health care to poor people. Perhaps that is immoral, but isn't a poor person is going to get care that will simply make his condition stable?

I understand the economic point you are making, but people who are making minimum wage actually have to do work in order to get what you are calling a free handout. And of course what they are worth, is whatever the business decides to pay them after the business owner pays himself. If you work at diligently and hard at a job for a full day, is the value of human time and effort truly only the amount that the owner, who may actually be fairly lousy at business, is able or willing to pay?When businesses pay a worker less than a livable wage, the rest of us pick up the tab by having to supplement that pay with food stamps and free medical care for the worker and his family.

I don't agree that increased wages as a handout. If that were the case, then every pretty much every raise is a handout. If we allow an employer to pay wages so low that the community has to subsidize them, then it is the employer who is getting the handout. I don't see how your suggestion could possibly work. If a dollar is increased in value, so that one dollar purchases more goods and services, that would mean fewer dollars in the till for everyone who is selling anything, and thus fewer dollars to divvy up between employer and employee thus lowering wages. How would this help?Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.