You’re not sticking a transmitter down my throat.
What’s the next step?
...and there would be a next step, there always is.
Given your logic, it would be prudent to stick transmitters into ALL foods which are high in cholesterol. Then if YOU eat any of those high cholesterol foods, you’d get a visit from the high cholesterol food police. After all, your behavior would be increasing the cost of my premiums - right? NO Twinkies for you, Bud.
Oh and YOU need to exercise too. Perhaps there should be a transmitter implanted in your body that connects up to your treadmill. Didn’t feel like walking 3 miles on the treadmill today? Too bad, you’re raising MY premiums...the exercise police are on their way.
I find the above to be REASONABLE requests of you. I don’t want you eating a piece of cake or slacking off on your level of exercise and increasing my premiums.
In fact, I want you to swallow one more transmitter every day. Regular bowel movements are an important part of daily living health and wellness. Please take this pill every morning, so we can monitor what time you take your daily doody. Uh oh....no elimination today? How unlucky for you, the doody police are on their way.
My ‘logic’ requires CONSENT not a mandate.
The issue I raised was who if anyone can be forced to:
(1) fill out periodic paperwork to get meds
(2) report foods/liquids eaten
(3) take drug A but not drug B
(4) do ‘this’ or lose benefits
and so on, with the point being that THAT goes on today. This is just one more level of intrusion.
I am NOT for this as a government mandate. I AM for this in certain high risk or ICU in-patient scenarios.
I am not for serial incremental erosion of our liberties.
But SHOULD ‘we’ do anything about the non-productive fat slob who lives next door sucking up expensive health care benefits, and doing NOTHING to maintain their health?
THAT is the ethical and societal issue I was trying to get at.
Remember, I am not in favor of the government requiring anyone to swallow a pill with an RFID tag without their consent.