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'NHS should not treat those with unhealthy lifestyles' say Tories
The Evening Standard (UK) ^ | September 4, 2007

Posted on 09/04/2007 3:07:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Eric Blair 2084

Pathetic isn’t this.The people who squealed their approval of smoking bans are now seeing what it will lead to. My local paper had a letter about how the government has the “right to take food out of your throat” by banning trans fats (her words) because “her” tax dollars go to pay for health care of people who eat unhealthy. I seriously have been wondering when there will be a lawsuit about this because there are clearly “favored” unhealthy lifestyles that are exempt from bans. I’d be curious to have someone do a “freakonomics” analysis of the relative health care costs of: 1) Unprotected gay sex 2)teenage pregnancy 3) fat non-smokers 4) people who don’t smoke and eat right, but who have horrible genetic predisposition to disease and compare it to the cost of being a smoker, minus of course the taxes already paid by smokers.


61 posted on 09/04/2007 9:28:55 PM PDT by boop (Trunk Monkey. Is there anything he can't do?)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I forgot #5, the REAL health care dollar absorbers, old people. Compare a transfat eating 20 year old smoker and and an 85 year old FDR lovin’ nanny stater and see just how much $ they cost the health care system.


62 posted on 09/04/2007 9:33:45 PM PDT by boop (Trunk Monkey. Is there anything he can't do?)
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To: secretagent

The architech of the sanitary hell world of the movie Demolition Man.

EVERYTHING prohibited, even kissing.


63 posted on 09/04/2007 11:30:44 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Rembrandt

Sounds a lot like Hillary and the rest of the dumbocrats, doesn’t it?


64 posted on 09/05/2007 5:24:34 AM PDT by bfree (liberalism is the enemy of freedom!!!)
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To: COgamer
Hm... I don’t see anything at all objectionable about this.

Welcome to Utopia, Comrade.

65 posted on 09/05/2007 7:02:14 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bttt


66 posted on 09/05/2007 2:22:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
I read your link. Great article. You should blog far and wide.
67 posted on 09/05/2007 2:52:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie (All Muslims are suspect.)
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