A Way to Make the Healthcare Bill Deficit Neutral (border, Obama, insurance)

[Soccersupporter]

I think we should follow Japan's lead but take it a step farther. I think the Obama administration should attach a tax for overweight people into the healthcare bill. This would definitely make the bill a deficit neutral bill with all the fat cat liberals in the US. Me being the same wasteline I had in HS 32, see know problem with a tax for the inflated wasteline.


Summoned by the city of Amagasaki one recent morning, Minoru Nogiri, 45, a flower shop owner, found himself lining up to have his waistline measured. With no visible paunch, he seemed to run little risk of being classified as overweight, or metabo, the preferred word in Japan these days.

But because the new state-prescribed limit for male waistlines is a strict 33.5 inches, he had anxiously measured himself at home a couple of days earlier. “I’m on the border,” he said.

Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/world/asia/13fat.html

[old_cold]

This only starts the arguments about what unhealthy habits are those that should require a surcharge.
One can be a skinny smoking alcohol abuser type A personality with high blood pressure.

[Soccersupporter]

Originally Posted by old_cold

This only starts the arguments about what unhealthy habits are those that should require a surcharge.
One can be a skinny smoking alcohol abuser type A personality with high blood pressure.

That would be fine too, I don't drink or smoke, eat healthy, and drive the speed limit.

[texdav]

I thnik if they want healthcare they need to put a broad txa on evreyone in payroll taxes to pay for it and raise it has the cost go up. That is the only way that people are goiing to have some skin in the game to deacide what they really want to spend on healthcare. Otherwsie its too easy to say let the other guy poay as is being proposed now.Every group that they propose being taxed from lower miidle to rich now have opposed pay9ng anyhting in the current funding loked at.

[Soccersupporter]

Originally Posted by texdav

I thnik if they want healthcare they need to put a broad txa on evreyone in payroll taxes to pay for it and raise it has the cost go up. That is the only way that people are goiing to have some skin in the game to deacide what they really want to spend on healthcare. Otherwsie its too easy to say let the other guy poay as is being proposed now.Every group that they propose being taxed from lower miidle to rich now have opposed pay9ng anyhting in the current funding loked at.

The way people have skin in it is to eliminate health insurance altogether.