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Which is precisely why some of us are opposed to socialised healthcare. Once you have it, every little decision you make becomes everyone else's business.

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You make "socialised healthcare" sounds like we have a NHS food police tracking us and sending us off to a health re-education camp if we don't eat 5 bits of fruit and veg a day.

And even if that were true, they're obviously not doing a very good job of restricting bad food intake given the UK's own obesity problems.

If the NHS were following everyone around, they'd have to be stuffing people full of low quality food to get the present outcome.

I completely agree. This is why I've been skeptical of socialist healthcare - your business becomes everybody's business. We MUST have a private option; a way to opt-out of public benefits for healthcare, if we are to maintain the option of freedom.

That's why the "public option" was such a decent choice. Before it was killed to sell-out to insurance companies.

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