Raise health insurance rates 10% across the board. Create a system where if your body fat is a certain level, your insurance rate drops 2%. If your cholesterol is a certain level, your rate drops another 2%. Your VO2 max is a certain level, another 2% drop. And so on… Give people one year to improve their physical fitness and they can be REWARDED for being healthy. Choose not to live a healthy lifestyle and you CHOOSE not to have your rates drop.
LET’S BE HONEST: THE FACT IS NOBODY WANTS TO PAY THE FREIGHT FOR OBESE PEOPLE. HERE’S AN ANCILLARY QUESTION: SHOULD AIRLINES BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE EQUIVALENT OF TWO SEATS FOR AN OBESE PERSON AT THE SAME PRICE IT CHARGES A NON-OBESE PERSON? WHEN DO THE ACCOMODATIONS STOP? THE ORIGINAL QUESTION REMAINS UN-ANSWERED: WHO WILL PAY FOR THIS PROBLEM? NOTE: THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM IN CANADA IS ONLY 10% VS. 90% IN THE U.S.
I have a great novel idea……how about just finding ways to lower the extremely high cost of health care in general (like nobody has ever said that before). Doctors make boatloads of money….drug companies make even more and lets face it…the insurance companies don’t want to pay for anything anyway because everything is so expensive but they still make huge money too. Something tells me that maybe its the doctors, drug and medical companies and insurance companies that are making the common person not want to pay for somebodys health care costs who may be obese. Question…would you feel better about paying more for someone who has alzhimers vs. someone who is obese?? Don’t blame the people with health issues blame the people who make it so expensive to treat the health issues!! Simple huh??
If Healthcare was simple, we wouldn’t be having a debate for the past two years and having such wide diversity of opinion on how to handle it and how to bring costs down for everyone. Unfortunately, Congress and this President rammed through a 2,700 page bill which the majority didn’t want and is sure to raise everyone’s cost and will lead to rationed care. Just ask anyone from Great Britain how good their system is. My guess is that obese people there are given very little benefits for healthcare problems.
Maybe Ocare is the answer. There will be less money in the public’s pocket, so less to spend on food. I am investing in the dog food companies as Alpo may become the new Spam.
Let’s round up all the obese people and relocate them to one state. There would be medical specialists to help them, and businesses to accodate them. They could even have their own airline with retro-fitted C-130’s so they’d have ample space. We’d experience rate their healthcare and disability coverages. We could control the amount of food shipped in so maybe they’d lose weight.
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Raise health insurance rates 10% across the board. Create a system where if your body fat is a certain level, your insurance rate drops 2%. If your cholesterol is a certain level, your rate drops another 2%. Your VO2 max is a certain level, another 2% drop. And so on… Give people one year to improve their physical fitness and they can be REWARDED for being healthy. Choose not to live a healthy lifestyle and you CHOOSE not to have your rates drop.
LET’S BE HONEST: THE FACT IS NOBODY WANTS TO PAY THE FREIGHT FOR OBESE PEOPLE. HERE’S AN ANCILLARY QUESTION: SHOULD AIRLINES BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE EQUIVALENT OF TWO SEATS FOR AN OBESE PERSON AT THE SAME PRICE IT CHARGES A NON-OBESE PERSON? WHEN DO THE ACCOMODATIONS STOP? THE ORIGINAL QUESTION REMAINS UN-ANSWERED: WHO WILL PAY FOR THIS PROBLEM? NOTE: THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM IN CANADA IS ONLY 10% VS. 90% IN THE U.S.
Frozen food has less calories. In Canada, when you open your front door, the light goes on.
I have a great novel idea……how about just finding ways to lower the extremely high cost of health care in general (like nobody has ever said that before). Doctors make boatloads of money….drug companies make even more and lets face it…the insurance companies don’t want to pay for anything anyway because everything is so expensive but they still make huge money too. Something tells me that maybe its the doctors, drug and medical companies and insurance companies that are making the common person not want to pay for somebodys health care costs who may be obese. Question…would you feel better about paying more for someone who has alzhimers vs. someone who is obese?? Don’t blame the people with health issues blame the people who make it so expensive to treat the health issues!! Simple huh??
In Canada and even in our Alaska, people burn more calories just to stay warm. The result is less obesity.
“would you feel better about paying more for someone who has alzhimers vs. someone who is obese??”
Alzhimers is not a choice. With hard work and discipline, obesity, on the other hand, can be treated.
Not so simple, huh??
If Healthcare was simple, we wouldn’t be having a debate for the past two years and having such wide diversity of opinion on how to handle it and how to bring costs down for everyone. Unfortunately, Congress and this President rammed through a 2,700 page bill which the majority didn’t want and is sure to raise everyone’s cost and will lead to rationed care. Just ask anyone from Great Britain how good their system is. My guess is that obese people there are given very little benefits for healthcare problems.
Maybe Ocare is the answer. There will be less money in the public’s pocket, so less to spend on food. I am investing in the dog food companies as Alpo may become the new Spam.
Let’s round up all the obese people and relocate them to one state. There would be medical specialists to help them, and businesses to accodate them. They could even have their own airline with retro-fitted C-130’s so they’d have ample space. We’d experience rate their healthcare and disability coverages. We could control the amount of food shipped in so maybe they’d lose weight.
Tom, Our diet may be Rice & Beans before all is said and done after the economy is wrecked ala Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.