> Obesity should automatically put a person into a different risk/cost pool for health insurance That already happens, though. > I'm tired of subsidizing peop

> Obesity should automatically put a person into a different risk/cost pool for health insurance That already happens, though. > I'm tired of subsidizing people who are so intent on harming themselves Fair point, however you also subsidize smokers, drug addicts, etc. I find your comment to be overly negative, instead of trying to solve the problem your propose to punish people financially, which won't work for two reasons, one of which is that poor people on average weigh more, and second is that you will reinforce bad behavior (i.e. overeating) and conspiracy theories that the world is out to get fat people. My opinion is that a significat number of people who are overweight have a psychiatric condition, that can either directly cause overeating, or indirectly (i.e. medication such as antipsychotics, including "modern" ones like aripiprazole, drastically increase appetite). As a fat person myself, I find it helpful to criticize obesity, as a complete fat-acceptness state of society would be very harmful. However, please, do not settle on punishment that at most could benefit normal-weight people financially, as we do with the justice system. Instead, try education and constructive criticism. Also, some fat people need healthcare to be able to lose weight -- like me (Coushing's disease). Had your plan to deny me health insurance (by making it too expensive) been implemented, I would not only be fat forever, it would ruin both my life, lives of people around me (a stupid example: people in a bus being uncomfortably close to a obese person who is simply too large), and in the end achieve nothing. As a software developer, I can provide more value to the society alive and healthy than sick and possibly dead, even including the additional cost of health insurance, adrenal gland surgery and medications and care. Think before you ostracize. What you're proposing is not healthy and helpful criticism, it's a totalitarian conspiracy against a group of people, some of whom need your help.