Be Healthy or Else!

Be Healthy or Else! - The Ayn Rand Institute - Sep 11, 07: “a Tory panel in Britain suggested that, in order to control the spiraling costs of its socialized health-care system, Britons should be forced to adopt a government-prescribed ‘healthy lifestyle’ or else be denied certain medical treatments. Britons who improve their health by, for example, quitting smoking or losing weight would receive ‘Health Miles’ that could be used to purchase vegetables or pay for gym memberships. ‘These proposals are the reductio ad absurdum of nanny-state paternalism,’ said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. ‘According to these politicians, instead of having a government that protects our right to live our own lives, we are to be treated like incompetent children who need someone to force us to visit the doctor and eat our veggies.”

If the Brits allow Nanny to monitor their every function they obviously are not mature adults.