Responses to rising healthcare costs: ‘What if we reduce the number of overweight people’

‘If we do not allow the increase from 7.3 to 7.7 million overweight people to happen or even reduce it, then the increase of 77,000 heart patients, 70,000 diabetes patients and the number of artificial knees and hips will probably also be a lot less. And of course the costs’: and ‘If it continues like this, you will no longer have to go to Amsterdam to see Ajax play football. Then it can even be done at FC Dordrecht next season’: these are some reactions from readers to the news of the day. Below are the reader letters that will appear in the newspaper of Tuesday, October 31. You can submit your own response via letters@ad.nl.