Should we make fat people pay for National Health Service treatment (UK)
In the UK should people be made to pay for NHS treatment for weight related health problems or should they continue to be covered by the taxpayer?
Yes
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No
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Would it not be better to tackle the problem of obesity rather than making them pay for the NHS? We could try raising tax by a considerable amount on unhealthy food and lowering them on fruits and vegetables. This could help slightly with the costs while also reducing the amount of people who need to be treated. Obesity is clearly a massive issue in the UK and making people pay for the NHS is not going to solve any of the problems. Side: No
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First off fruit is not taxed anyway. Also taxing unhealthy food is not fair on people who eat responsibly but only eat it as a rare treat. It is not the government's responsibility what people eat. Nor is it the government's fault if people eat unhealthily. Making them pay for the NHS will save the problem entirely. The only problem is that they cost the taxpayer money and that needs to be resolved only. I don't care whether people are destroying their health I just care if them doing so effects the rest of us badly. Side: Yes
Yes, but the idea should go further with a ''sliding scale'' of charges depending on the level to which the patient contributed towards their own malady. These would include, as you proposed, porkers, but also, smokers, junkies and alcohol abusers. Those promoting profit making sports fixtures should be required by law to provide private emergency medical services. The national health service in it's present, ''free for all'' mode simply isn't working. The guzzling, smoking boozers and druggies swamp the service, thus denying vital treatment to those, such as sick children, whose plight is no fault of their own. Side: Yes
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