Reply #51: This could be the "sleepy slope" of a country of spies and busy bodies [View All]

We will have citizens pointing out fingers on neighbors and co-workers that "this person eats too many McNuggets," and "drink too many super size cokes" and therefore should be denied medical care, or at least, be under some kind of restrictions.

I posted about it before and, I think, after another of Maher's observations.

Yes people live unhealthy life, don't get enough sleep, munch goodies while clicking away to post on... DU, instead of walking around the block. Oh, I forgot, my "around the block" in a nice, middle class suburb is different from many's "around the block" in the inner cities with broken sidewalks and drug dealing and gun shooting just for the fun of it.

No one chooses to eat too much that it is hard on the lungs, the joints and the feet; by the time people realize that smoking is bad for them, it is too late they are addicted. I am not sure, but I think that if one smokes, it suppresses one's appetite and you are no longer bothered by the fact that you don't have much to eat.

And it is this approach that could kill any meaningful health care available to everyone. Fearing that one's life style, one's eating, drinking and smoking habits will be scrutinized for one's "suitability" for affordable health care. What would be next? How many times and what positions should one have sex? Is "teabagging" healthy?

Promoting this approach is the epitome of elitism, in my opinion.