Submitted on Friday 5th August 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Charge obese people for the treatment of ailments that are directly related to their weight issues.
For a long time now the NHS has been becoming increasingly stretched due to lack of funding and a massive increase in weight related illness' such as heart disease, type 2 Diabetes and congestive heart failure. I propose that the government considers charging obese people for operations and cures of directly weight related illness's as I believe that it is unfair that the taxpayers money is being drawn away from people who really need it through no fault of their own rather than being frittered on obese people who have allowed themselves to become so large through their own pitiful self control. It would also act as motivation for obese people to lose weight which is much needed in these days of gluttony and laziness.
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