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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

In a country with national healthcare, do you not think people have a degree of responsibility to manage their own health to avoid being a burden on the system? Freedom to eat what you like and get obese may work in the US when you or your insurance company has to pay for treatment later in life, but here it's society that has to pony up because you choose a Maccy ds over ten minutes at the stove.