John Goldman
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And I think it's...
Like from a macro abstract level, we need to do anything that we can to get the population leaner.
Just speaking as a whole.
Yeah.
Leaner comes and then healthier comes after that.
And the amount of money that is spent in the U.S.
on treating people with metabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity and other things is staggering, dude.
It's in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars.
We need to... Many billions.
Many amazing billions.
I don't sound like... We're not going to say... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We need to shrink, literally shrink the size of individuals within the population.
And so I think...
broad strokes it's going to be good good for you know the country the country bad for the economics but they'll make money on the other side i guess they'll make money on the other side but it will also relieve the pressure on the health care system and relieve pressure on medicaid medicare in the u.s and relieve pressure on the national it's national health care in canada right yeah yeah yeah it'll relieve pressure there as well i'm going to use the word they i don't like saying that in public but do they actually want that is that what they actually want
Well, it depends on who you're talking to within the ecosystem, right?
The hospital owners and stuff, they love it when people come in sick and they get to bill Medicaid, Medicare for that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
They do.
But like if you're thinking about it from a budgetary perspective for the United States, I mean, you got to reduce these overall health care costs.