> I do think people should be more responsible for their own general health and well being.
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>I think that people should take more personal resonsibility in all aspects of their lives. However, this is the problem that I see with nationalized health care. Once the government is paying for your health care, it feels that it has the right to become more intrusive in all other aspects of your life. For example, the government feels that it can mandate a healthy diet because if you eat only burgers and fries, you will get fat and obesity is not healthy and you will be costing the government more money because of your poor health.
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>New York City outlawed salt shakers from tables in restaurants because salt is bad for you and too many Americans have high blood pressure. Now salt is an "under the counter" item that you have to ask for explicitly in New York City (just like the dirty magazines at the drug store). Never mind that my primary care physician told me to eat more salt because my blood work showed that I was low on sodium and chloride because I work out so hard and lose so much salt through perspiration.
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>I wonder how the government is going to attempt to mandate an exercise program....

It isn't. There is a big difference between encouraging and requiring. It is beyond the reach of even the most ardent anti-government conspiracy theorists to imagine the government trying to require exercise.

Speaking of conspiracy theories, I heard about a new one yesterday. Solar flares. Did you know the crash at the air show in Reno the other day was caused by solar flares? The government knows about this, of course, but they aren't telling us.