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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Dos Equis on February 04, 2015, 10:47:33 AM
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If they want to tax by body fat, I'm good. But if it's just overall weight, I got a real problem with this. lol
Ex-ObamaCare adviser Gruber: Tax fat people by body weight
The Daily Caller
By Patrick Howley
Published February 04, 2015
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An overweight woman sits on a chair in Times Square in New York, May 8, 2012.(REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
Jonathan Gruber, long credited as the architect of ObamaCare, once discussed the necessity of taxing fat people by body weight in order to fight obesity.
“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight,” Gruber wrote in an essay for the National Institute for Health Care Management in April 2010, just months after helping design ObamaCare with the president in the Oval Office and during the period in which he was under contract as an Obama administration consultant.
“While it is hard to conceive of this approach being a common public policy tool in the near term, such taxation may be happening indirectly through health insurance surcharges,” he wrote. “Currently, employers may charge up to 20 percent higher health insurance premiums for employees who fail to meet certain health-related standards, such as attaining a healthy BMI.”
“The new health reform legislation increases this differential to 30 percent, with the possibility of rising to 50 percent. Results of programs that use differential premiums to impose direct financial penalties for obesity will bear watching in the future.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/former-obama-adviser-should-tax-fat-people-by-body-weight/