According to the London Telegraph, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will ask doctors to identify anyone who has put on weight and is at risk of diabetes so they can be placed under “close monitoring to ensure that they are eating healthily and exercising more” (“Doctors told to report patients who put on weight,” The Telegraph, Dec. 25, 2014). Businesses will be asked to reward employees who lose weight with shopping vouchers. It’s part of a new program to fight obesity, which has risen from 15% in 1993 to 25% today, and the NHS spends ten billion pounds a year treating diabetes. This type of thing is the natural product of nationalized healthcare. For the government to encourage weight loss is one thing, but government “monitoring” is another thing altogether. We are reminded that government largess always comes with government control. No nation has the resources to provide every type of modern medical care that every person needs, so care is rationed, and people’s lives are monitored for “the system’s sake.” (Friday Church News Notes, January 2, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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