J. Clarke wrote:
>> A few years ago after my brother had surgery he wanted to go to the
>> grocery store. He wasn't *obviously* impaired but the doctor told him to
>> stay off his feet for a few days. He wanted to stock up on food on the
>> way home from the hospital. He used one of those motarized carts because
>> the doctor told him not to walk. I'm sure lots of people would have
>> looked at him and assumed "lazy" rather than "doctor's orders". Not
>> everyone who needs those carts is old (or fat).
>
> In any case, the "fat tax" is exactly the sort of micromanagement that
> opponents of government-controlled medicine fear and that its advocates
> say will never happen.
>

Private insurance is much better for that. They simply refuse you coverage.