Should we tax fat people?

Maybe the socialist healthcare model is showing flaws, because the "generous givers" develop a delusional sense of self-righteousness.


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Times Online: We need a blubber tax

Overweight people cost the health service a colossal amount. We should hit them in the wallet

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I am horrified by how much it costs the NHS to look after so many people who have made themselves ill simply through a lack of willpower and/or self-respect. It's not just type 2 that is in danger of crippling the health service. It is joint replacements, gastric banding, heart disease, other organ failures and all the respiratory problems that follow in obesity's gigantic, swaggering wake. The total annual cost of human fatness to the NHS is estimated at £1 billion a year. One billion pounds! That's an awful lot of Toblerones.

They got it the wrong way around. The ostensible purpose of nationalised healthcare is to guarantee treatment to everyone at the expense of everyone. And there are arguments for and against this. But what is happening, is the government has got all self-righteous and controlling...


"We gave you this great system [by seizing your money at gunpoint if necessary]. And you won't live your life in such a way as to conform to our service's needs? Heresy! Be grateful for your great healthcare system!"

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Healthcare isn't something I have thought about lately. But since coming to the realisation that government and the elite of the world are pure evil and are out to enslave us and depopulate the planet, I guess there is no way I could be in favour of placing government at the helm of the medical system.

EDIT: What did I write! Government is not 'pure evil' on a par with the elite, rather the evil has hijacked govt, via the global bankers. Never mind.