JamesKer1 wrote:strike wolf wrote:I suppose you could influence penalties on health coverage dues based on people who were not meeting requirements for maintaining some standard of controllable fitness (and I think in the past this has been implemented to some extent or another) but you would have to have it clearly defined on the legal level of what those standards are not to mention potential ethical complications.
What right does the government have to force upon you its own form of health care and then demand that you live in such a way as to suit its financial needs?
That's like saying you have free speech, but only if the government likes what you're saying.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/proven-strategies-to-tame-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic/
