MMM, I'm sorry, there is a MMM posting under your handle. He wrote:
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I think the idea that your weight is something that you yourself are the master of needs to come back to the surface.
Many companies thrive by paying people to meet goals and punishing for not meeting goals. We learn those standards in grade school.
Why do we pretend personal health is something we have no control over, when it is the one thing we probably have the most control over in our lives?
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Which is pretty much the opposite of:
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Originally Posted by MMM
clint, do you think people should have the right to engage in dangerously unhealthy behavior that ends up costing everyone more money (in higher insurance rates and medical costs)?
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MMM, private insurance companies understand this and have healthness awareness programs and other benefits. If not, they just won't sell them a policy. If the insurance company is forced to let them in because of an employer then the rates for that company should be affected and it should then be the companies responsibility to get their employees in order. Thus in the end it falls back on the responsibility of the individual.
If they already have a policy and one decides to blow themselves up to a certain weight disclosed in the policy (not due to a hormone inbalance), then you risk high premiums, rehab or termination. Kind of like you burning down your restaurant or crashing your car to collect on the insurance. But I'm talking about really destroying your body... like hitting the morbid BMIs.
An exception to this in most cases:If you are in a position of power in public that requires your physical health... i.e. mass transit driver, pilot, etc etc that should be taken care of by that company.
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Just as alcohol, gasoline, cigarettes are taxed, I think junk food and drinks should also be taxed and that money should go to offsetting the costs obesity, and obesity-caused illnesses have on society as a whole.
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You slipped in Gasoline in there for some reason... Really?
Why stop there? Why not tax TV (rots your brain), games (addictive and can consume your life... could leave your baby in the car and forget about it), internet (too much free speech there and someone of weak mind could get the wrong idea and commit bodily injury), porn (yeah its bad), tanning salons, chocolate, tea, dare I say it... coffee... (tea and coffee for the caffine).
Too much of anything is bad for you in the long run...
Why not just make them illegal... Lets not just make anything bad for you illegal or tax it to death.
Why stop with obesity ... go for too thin too. Or not strong enough, too frail... How about sports deemed to be risky physically. All can be addictive and damaging.
Stop with the taxing already... the last thing we need is letting government tax something else..
I'm don't want to pay an extra 25 cents for a cup of co-co because someone likes co-co too much.