>>but why socialize the cost of medicine of those unwilling to loose weight and unwilling to control their diet ? For my taste personal choice of living/behaviour should express itself in medical cost as well at least partially.
I agree in principle but how can you legislate such a thing? What about the obese diabetic mother of 5, including a piano prodigy? To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: it's better to shell out for 99 undeserving than to abandon one deserving.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
