[collegeburner]

Almost every health care system is based on shared payment. Either insurance or socialized medicine, it's similar with a varying amount of pooling. If almost everybody is obese, us few healthy people may end up stuck paying for the fatties. And eventually, there will be too many fatties, they will vote that they can't be pooled separately so we have to pay even more, and there will at some point be too few of us.

IInsurance for me should be very low. I am in great shape by anybody's measure. But all the drunks, junkies, fatties, make my payments so high I've debated dropping medical insurance.