Family too fat to work, need more benefits

[SciFiBoy]

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:

Thatmax said:

Kasz216 said:
Well that is one of the larger problems the UK and first world countries with socialized healthcare are dealing with as well.

Think how much more their healthcare will cost.

 

So free healthcare is one of the bigger problems in the UK???

The way it's run yeah. There is no benefit to living a healthy life.

It's a major problem with US healthcare too but that's managed by offering either rewards or penalties to people for how they live their livse. Such a thing would be unthinkable in the UK.

 

The UK works around this with a tightly knit community programme, something I imagine you don't get with commercial hospitals. They have obligations to be active within the community set by the government, kind of like the BBC have obligations to satisfy certain audiences. They offer free sex ed and other medical education services for young people and schools, free mother and baby clinics and so on and so forth. It's a good system.

 

None of that addresses the Obesity problem.  Which is a huge problem.  Some UK doctors have suggested not offering the same services to the obese because of the huge deficit their care causes.  They were of course shot down.

 

im glad they were shot down, who are you to judge who does and does not deserve healthcare? its a basic HUMAN right, since when did obese people stop being human?