Tom Mangan ponders a future where your Boss at work demands:
… take up hiking or we yank your health coverage.
Sounds extreme? I call it a logical extension of what we already know:
• The U.S. has no political will to confront spiraling health costs.
• Prevention is the only proven way to keep the doctor away.
• Simply going on walks regularly can significantly improve physical health and reduce risk of developing expensive maladies like heart disease and diabetes.
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(via Boing Boing)
Brilliant.
It reminds me of my own bold proposal to end racism by making inter-racial marriage mandatory.
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Sounds good. I’d like to add my own longstanding “If I were King” ideas:
* $5/gal tax on gasoline. Money goes to provide free public transit.
* Defend our borders. Don’t violate anyone else’s.
* Public health care same as public education: free to a certain point, you must pay after that for advanced treatment. If you don’t have the money, you may die. We all will anyway.
* Free birth control and abortion. You must pay to have a child. If you don’t have the money, better to find that out now.
* Eliminate illegal immigration.
* There’s nothing free about free trade.
I would be overthrown.
I like it !… simple and full of common sense 🙂