Obesity: should fatties be taxed rather than fat?
Could a risk-based National Insurance system ever work? Government health drives are always dangerous things politically, as they tend to deliver unpopular information to people who know the truth of it but dislike having to admit their failings to themselves and so blame the messenger. That the message is frequently accompanied by tax increases doesn’t really help either. The reports about obesity published in The Lancet yesterday and widely covered in the media fit very much into that mould, advocating…