political cartoons and fat people

During this health care reform debate, several political cartoons have appeared that depict the high cost of health care is the USA on fat people. One of the most common reasons people file bankruptsy is because of medical bills and it is true that being overwight is not healthy, one cannot say because one is fat, everyone else's health care cost will increase.

Recently a local woman died. She was a beautiful women, in her fifties. Her identical twin sister died a year earlier. Car accidents, hunting accidents, injuries in war time (yes, we are at war), indudtrial accidents, failed murder attempts, cancers, industrial toxins, and other long term illnesses also take a toll on health care costs.

While probably true that for the average person costs of health care increases as they age, but so does the amount of ones income that is spent on health care. To be honest, I do not think that old people and fat people are the cause of the health care crisis in the USA.