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what about a "healthy food tax" ringfenced for funding the costs of end of life care for people with longer life expectancy??
by puttyaccount 11y ago
what about a "healthy food tax" ringfenced for funding the costs of end of life care for people with longer life expectancy??
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- sdoering 11y ago<sarcasm>Isn't this a very cynical pov? On the same grounds I could argue for trolls to be euthanized instead of feed. </sarcasm>
- belorn 11y agoYes, Minister made a similar joke that people who died from smoking tobacco are doing society a favor by limiting the need to spend money on elderly care and pensions.
- stevetrewick 11y agoExcept it's not a joke, it's probably true [0] : Research by the Institute of Economic Affairs argues that a tax on fatty food could actually increase the burden on the health system and unfairly penalise the poor. Dr Barrie Craven from the Department for Education at the University of Newcastle, who co-wrote the IEA report, said: "It is commonly assumed that obese people are a disproportionate burden on the NHS. "By 56, the obese are the most expensive but not over their lifetime. "We have to remember that the obese and smokers tend to die earlier and the healthy incur very expensive 24 hour care later in life for diseases such as dementia." [0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9359212/Obese-and-smokers-less-of-a-burden-on-the-NHS-than-the-healthy-who-live-longer-report.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9359212/Obese-an...