Overweight Americans

So I'm listening to the old Virgin Radio UK again...and they have the news that comes on every morning. The announcer goes through all of the normal regional news..."football", Tony Blair, blah blah. At the end of the news the announcer did a report on how Medicare is claiming that obesity is an illness..because of all of the OVERWEIGHT AMERICANS...like everyone here is obese or something. He even went on to say that Medicare could be facing some very large medical bills. Granted, many Americans are overweight, but I've been to England...there are fat people there too! I just found it amusing how he so triumphantly declared that Medicare had to take this step because all of the OVERWEIGHT AMERICANS...