Changing the costs of Medicare and Medicaid um can't happen without changing the obesity rates. I I think that's roughly right because of the downstream chronic diseases which are now 80% of all healthcare costs. And the data we use is that about a third of all health care is obesity related. So $1.4 trillion dollars a year.
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