You little smart allec you think you can steal my chic do you!? Take this!!

@EpicRandy, wouldn't that be awesome if he was 3ft tall LOL!

On the one hand i see your point...

on the otherhand.  Better medical care is one of the main reasons why people would want to immigrate to a "developed" nation, and a good part of immigration is supposed to serve helping the disaffected from other countries?

Baring those who need the help most from immigration, seems wrong.

Imagine Merika passing something like that O)_(O 67% of is population will have to leave !

The bolded part, not long. I just needed something short and extreme to describe very fat people that aren't quite at record levels with their weigth, and that was the first thing I came up with. If you look at statistics, you'll see I'm not even exaggerating, which is exactly the reason I didn't look for a better way to say it for long.

This sounds like the right interpretation. The bureaucrats who run this sort of thing usually make allowances for most circumstances, but sometimes people end up slipping into the wrong category.

Surely this is the sort of thing that could be appealed, especially if the man demonstrated his weight loss and, perhaps, plans to continue doing so.

If you're attempting to be funny, you have failed.

They aren't throwing fat people out of New Zealand, which has plenty of fat people already. They're just keeping fatties from coming over due to their socialized health care system.

Would it not work if we just taxed unhealthy ingredients in foods? Then consumers and producers would both have incentives to eat healthier.

denmark tried it with a tax on fat but it failed after only a year or so. you can google it if you are interested in how it worked and why it failed.

Oh no, communism. In europe was an initiative to clearly mark the amount of fat, sugar, salt and so on contained in food. Naturally that wasn't getting into law in the end, the lobbying against it was immense.

My thoughts are as follows.

If the state offers a health program it then does have input into admitting people or curbing behaviors toward preventable illness with obesity being number one.

Example: If you want government health care they can tell you "Okay, you are 300 lbs. For your height We need you at 200 lbs. If you can lose 15 lbs a year you can be in the program, failure to do so means you are out."

In this case, I'd admit the man, lay out the ground rules on health services and admittance. If you do not like it can opt out and still immigrate, but your health is on your own dime with an insurance company.