[NittanyLion]

So those Medicare/Medicaid recipients who are costing the taxpayer more than they otherwise would if they exhibitted a little self-control don't bug you? Ditto for your company's health care expenditures? The obese people I know routinely run up at least four figs in medical bills every year. I'm tired of getting soaked to help cover the results of their bad behavior.

Then I would suggest you concentrate your efforts on the root cause of the problem: government's role in healthcare.

[machman]

Then I would suggest you concentrate your efforts on the root cause of the problem: government's role in healthcare.

Bingo!!! We have a winner. When you pay for your own healthcare, if you are fat and get sick, YOU pay for it. But when the burden of resposiblity shifts from the individual to the group, then we all "pay for it", and then it is "my business" what you do and eat. But of course, the flaw is that nobody else should really be paying for mine or your healthcare. This is the core of socialism, pure and simple.