CompuServe Messages

I'm getting some early uneasy tremors from the current goings-on here over creating a national health policy, which the U.S. alone of industrial nations has never had as a universal thing (it exists, but only for the poor and the badly handicapped). Instead of just letting well enough alone and doing a decent national insurance scheme, they're talking about using it to improve behavior and force people to be healthier. It's been suggested that large surtaxes might be in order for people who are overweight, or drink, or smoke, or aren't on a recognized exercise regimen, or whatever. They do that and it'll never pass, but you can see the thinking.