“Nothing kills more Americans than heart disease and stroke. More than 868,000 Americans die of heart disease or stroke every year—that’s one-third of all deaths. These diseases take an economic toll, as well, costing our health care system $214 billion per year and causing $138 billion in lost productivity on the job”
If we legislated based on cost to healthcare we would have already gone after heart disease. Heart disease is mostly avoidable and it’s caused by choices we make over our lives.
It is a choice made by our environment first. That is, it's practically impossible to walk to your grocery store in most circumstances. Ditto for food environment and possible chemical factors that influences our weight.
Remember that the obesity epidemic started in the 80s. Before then, it's not like we don't lack access to all the food that we ever want to eat.
And then finally our choices. We could exercise choices to fix our problem, individually or collectively, but it's a difficult uphill struggle.
However, vaccination is different. It is not a struggle to walk into your pharamacy and get a flu or covid-19 vaccine. The only problem was the information environment that people are immersed in that dissuade people to take an otherwise very easy action to do.
If we legislated based on cost to healthcare we would have already gone after heart disease. Heart disease is mostly avoidable and it’s caused by choices we make over our lives.
https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm