Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers

smoothjazz writes "Governments are justified to prevent very skinny models from walking the catwalk and ban photographs and advertisements suggesting that extreme thinness is attractive, according to a group of researchers who found that social and cultural environment influences on young women is largely responsible for the spread of chronic eating disorder."

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Re:Actuarially, no.

[Rockoon]

You know, the thing about insurance of groups, which is essentially a statistical undertaking, is that there are always outliers in both directions, and they are accounted for.

In most cases it seems, "both directions" do not cancel out in the way that you are describing. They are often additive as in this case, where the morbidly obese and the deathly skinny both cost everyone else in the risk pool more money over the long haul.

Whenever someone starts sniveling about the over-users, take a moment to remind them of me...

Yes, remind them of the guy that only needs catastrophic coverage but is getting completely ripped off with a regular maintenance health insurance plan. You are proving the point.