It doesn't need to be that extreme, giving up the right to healthcare would probably make things a hell of a lot worse (encourage people to not go to the doctor

It doesn't need to be that extreme, giving up the right to healthcare would probably make things a hell of a lot worse (encourage people to not go to the doctor and then incur even more expenses). It seems that the incurred costs per capita for overweight/obese people is somewhere from $250-$2000 according to this study. [1] So we can use some combination of the carrot (reward people who are healthy) and the stick (tax/penalize people who aren't) and end up more or less in the same place. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891924/