They are taking away their health care for the common good.
I wonder if they deny treatment to armed people?
Everything not forbidden is compulsory.
A perfect example of why you don't want the government in charge of your health care. The temptation to tell you how to live in order to be worthy of treatment becomes irresistable.
Patient sits on the doctor until he changes his mind and signs off. Problem solved.
Will they pay for my Rascal? It's more fun than hip replacement.
So it goes with a fascist healthcare system the wonderful Brits have erected for themselves.
ThunderThighs the Hildabeast is getting goosepumbs of delight just reading about the Socialist Healthcare Dictatorship implied in this ruling. Oooooooooo. It feels soooooo goooooood. Just thinking about. She just can't WAIT till she's president and can do cool shit like this herself!
Universal Health Care Ping!
Only if you don't really bother to do all the calculations. First of all, on average, obese people are less productive than normal weight people, have lower incomes, and therefore pay less in taxes. Furthermore, "paying" for the NHS comes in two forms: paying taxes for the system's financial inflow, and making the needed effort to take care of one's own health and avoid preventable illness, so as to minimize the system's financial outflow. Again, on average, obese people are not pulling their weight when it comes to helping minimize the financial outflow. In general, I think it's an excellent idea for both government-funded (which really shouldn't exist) and privately funded health care programs to deny or limit coverage to people with self-inflicted ailments. In the case of obesity, however, exceptions need to be made for people whose obesity is clearly the result of some other disorder that is not self-inflicted. Medical science has some work to do before that determination can be made with much confidence, but it's an avenue of research well worth pursuing.
A study a year or so ago found that about 50% of the total health care tab in the US is attributable to obesity. Stop covering that group and we'll be in for a huge tax cut. And given the incentive of stay slim or no medical care that you can't pay out of your own pocket, and quite a lot of people will find a way to lose weight or avoid obesity in the first place, and that will have a very salutary effect on both the general health of our population, and on the economy as people live longer and work more effectively due to better health.
By this logic, no one in Britain should be allowed dental care since the entire country has a penchant for sweets.
But the British military WILL pay for breast enhancement for it's soldierttes.
Go figure.
Make it a twofer then. Joint replacement and liposuction.