Is this that socialist health care system Americans are supposed to want to pay $4 trillion per year for?
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And which group of all has the single biggest demand? Fat people - unironically. We need a "fat markup" for fatties in our public healthcare system.
If you want to tax the fat for their self-inflicted diseases burdening the system, you'd need to include all so-called "lifestyle diseases" in this category--smokers who get cancer or emphysema, users of street drugs who develop lesions and blood borne diseases, chronic alcoholics whose organs fail, malnourished vegans and macrobiotic dieters, people who get the clap or AIDS or monkeypox, type-2 diabetics, etc.
For that time, only the biggest and broadest group (fatties). In many parts of the world obesity is the most common pre-condition when it comes to hospital admissions for entire ranges of diseases and health problems. Force these people into healthier lifestyles and the entire public health system could provide less waiting time, including for more critical treatment. For more specific stuff like smokers there are already massive taxes for cigarettes in many countries (for example almost 70% tobacco tax in germany) - but that money does not flow into the public health system.
"only attack the things I don't participate in"
Man not to be a fatty defender, but somehow I knew you were going to be this type of little bitch.
Little cunts like you that do just as much destructive shit always want to make excuses for why it's different when YOU do it.
You sound like a fucking female.
How? By charging them more for doctoring? That seems like it would be fair.
They are already doing that with the lifestyles with smokers drinkers, so why not fatties? With them for example, an increase in monthly public health insurance payments would be a good start. An increase in food prices would be problematic, since theoretically you also could get fat just by eating too many apples for example.