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Lamiaceae Site Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7651 Location: To the right of my computer
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Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject: Are you fat? then get given money |
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Financial Times runs the following story
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f409b4a-ca46-11df-87b8-00144feab49a.html
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A public debate on whether people should be given incentives – from supermarket vouchers for stopping smoking and cash for losing weight to toys for children who eat their fruit and veg – is being sought by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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We appear to be looking at £400-£650 per person
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Some, including giving pregnant women on Tayside vouchers worth £12.50 a week, potentially adding up to £650, to stop smoking, or up to £400 to people in Kent who lose an agreed amount of weight, have attracted hostile comment
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So, if you're fat, there's no need to go down the gym just yet, hang on you overblown pink Blancmange because some overbearing do gooder ( no doubt from the council ) wants to give you taxpayers money to try to convince you that losing weight is a good idea, or to stop smoking while pregnant.
Meanwhile just up the road, someone who has cancer is told that they can't have their life saving cancer drugs because they are too expensive.
How about telling the human blimps that until they shift some weight they wont get any treatment whatsoever? - still wont make them lose the weight but it can save us so much time and money dealing with people who might actually need help and need it not actually being their own fault.
So, bribing fat people to lose weight and pregnant women to stop smoking, a good idea ? _________________ I should update my sig. What to put here for $CurrentYear ? |
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IceMan More favourite than Avarice also
Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: Yorkshire!!!!!!!
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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So if this means I start smoking and put on loads of weight and then stop and lose weight I can get loads of money?? I like this idea as Im skint lol _________________
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Lamiaceae Site Administrator
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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IceMan wrote: | So if this means I start smoking and put on loads of weight and then stop and lose weight I can get loads of money?? I like this idea as Im skint lol |
Yes, brings a whole new meaning to the term 'selling your body' though doesn't it _________________ I should update my sig. What to put here for $CurrentYear ? |
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spartman Veteran Contributer
Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 259 Location: Northern Idaho
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Minty wrote:
Quote: | Meanwhile just up the road, someone who has cancer is told that they can't have their life saving cancer drugs because they are too expensive. |
Yes, plus the "latest and greatest" cancer treatment from big Pharma costs 93,000 dollars a year and extends life,on average, 4 months.
God help us.
This kind of Nanny State crap makes me nuts !
Big Pharma and their poisons make me even crazier. The lame stream media had an article recently that divulged that 85 percent of the "medicines"
on the market for depression, etc. actually do little or nothing to help.
And the side effects are gruesome.
But, like Iceman said, ya'll should start puffing away and start stuffing down the pastries. At least you would get a few of your own tax pounds back.
Spart.
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Rach Site Administrator
Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 1056 Location: Middle of nowhere in England
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Lamiaceae Site Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7651 Location: To the right of my computer
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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If it genuinely is say, a thyroid problem or such, I dont think anyone will stop them getting the help they need. It's the whole 'you're fat because you don't go down teh gym' so here's some money to go down the gym that gets me.
But if it genuinely is found to be a gland issue, then they need whatever it is to get better, pounding the treadmills probably wont help as much as proper treatment.
It's about time, the strange weird laws the last govt thought were a good idea ( Nanny State ) made them laughable.
Seems teachers will get actually get teh abilitiy to control their class better as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11458137 _________________ I should update my sig. What to put here for $CurrentYear ? |
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Rach Site Administrator
Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 1056 Location: Middle of nowhere in England
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:30 am Post subject: |
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Its about time the government saw common sense - the last government made it really difficult, especially for teachers. I am glad some of the rediculous laws (especially those which restrain teachers and make it much harder to do their job) are finally being scrutinised and hopefully repealed. _________________ ~~~I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minuite of it!~~~
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area51newmexico Goddess
Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 10598 Location: East Yorkshire, England
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Lol:)
You can't bribe people to be healthly. It just wont work. If they want to loose weight, they'll have a greater chance of success. However, who's to say they wont fall about into their old ways once they have received teh reward? _________________ Helen, the Administratrix of www.area51newmexico.com
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