Snitz manplains rising insurance costs

According to the Wall St Journal, The Average Cost of a Family Health Insurance Plan Is Now $27,000. Lovely!

As they properly point out, "Higher spending on chronic diseases, weight-loss drugs and hospital bills helped drive the increase".

In Japan, the obesity rate hovers between 5 and 6%. Here, it's approaching 45%. Being overweight is "the" driver of chronic disease which constitutes 70% of our medical costs. Of course Japanese citizens keep their weight in check with proper diet and exercise. Here we're embracing GLP1 drugs which retail for $1,000 per month (& need to be taken for life else the weight returns) to accomplish he same.

That's why the Report this year welcomes are our new sponsor Eli Lilly and Comedian Kym Whitley.

BTW, insurance rates for everything else are going up too! We haven't lined up sponsors for those yet.