Obesity costs US employers $45 billion a year

Seems to me that every time we have an obesity drug that actually works, it ends up being taken off market when a few people have various problems taking it. We're then left with expensive drugs that either don't work or show a minimal outcome. When you consider all the fancy obesity programs out there promoted by equally fancy advertising, we end up with a little more than a placebo. Take the Belly Fat commercial for instance. That drug is so completely useless, that I find it surprising that these companies are allowed to peddle it. When we lived in Norway, they're were all types of good, effective medications for obesity. that a combination of employers and government worked in coalition to rid obesity. We saw people every day, who's lives were changed. It was a sad day when we had to return to the U.S. because we all knew the unspoken truth, that all our futures would be in decline.

Seems to me that every time we have an obesity drug that actually works, it ends up being taken off market when a few people have various problems taking it. We're then left with expensive drugs that either don't work or show a minimal outcome. When you consider all the fancy obesity programs out there promoted by equally fancy advertising, we end up with a little more than a placebo. Take the Belly Fat commercial for instance. That drug is so completely useless, that I find it surprising that these companies are allowed to peddle it. When we lived in Norway, there were all types of good, effective medications for obesity. And they were promoted by a combination of employers and government assistance, who worked in a coalition to rid obesity. We saw people every day, who's lives were changed with the loss of weight and other related factors.

Preventative programs really do work if given a chance. This last time we worked in Norway's health care system, we saw the change in people's attitudes towards America. Gone was the belief in our country's future. That we would rather spend money on banks and wars, before we ever would on health care. We were amazed at all the smart American young people who now called Scandinavia home. No, these are not the unsuccessful, but the future of American ingenuity who left during the Bush years never to return. Most Americans never see this emigration because it is never discussed. It was a sad day when we had to return to the U.S. however, because we all knew the unspoken truth. That all our futures and belief in America would continue be in decline, so long as we are weak willed to take a strong stand on a Health Care public option. You guys were elected to do this, not to compromise this endeavor into the grave.