# The two largest health care issues in America today

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 11, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-largest-health-care-issues-in-america-today/520908 "2009-12-11T20:36:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-largest-health-care-issues-in-america-today/520908/41 "2009-12-23T02:16:10Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> We also have the issue of juvenile diabetes (caused by obesity, which has a strong relationship to fast food consumption).

Juvenile diabetes ([Type 1 diabetes](http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/type-1/facts-about-type-1.html)) is not caused by obesity. It is caused by the inability to produce insulin. Even thin people get it.

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**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-largest-health-care-issues-in-america-today/520908/42 "2009-12-23T02:17:56Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Juvenile diabetes ([Type 1 diabetes](http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/type-1/facts-about-type-1.html)) is not caused by obesity. It is caused by the inability to produce insulin. Even thin people get it.

I think he means Type 2 diabetes in juveniles

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