Healthcare or Nanny State...you decide! | riversled's Blog

You will want to check out the opinion piece by Peggy Noonan in the July 24th Wall Street Journal. Below is an excerpt:

We are living in a time in which educated people who are at the top of American life feel they have the right to make very public criticisms of . . . let’s call it the private, pleasurable but health-related choices of others. They shame smokers and the overweight.

Those who live in a way that isn’t sufficiently healthy “cost us money” and “drive up premiums.” Mr. Obama himself said something like it in his press conference, when he spoke of a person who might not buy health insurance. If he gets hit by a bus, “the rest of us have to pay for it.”

Under a national health-care plan we might be hearing that a lot. You don’t exercise, you smoke, you drink, you eat too much, and “the rest of us have to pay for it.”

Read the whole article here;

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306533556532364.html

 Update: L.A. Times Article

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/07/tough-love-for-fatties-tax-their-food-pay-for-healthcare.html