Posted On: February 28, 2008, 1:38 pm CST

Posted By: N. Judge

How come no one seems to be concerned with the fact that this is one more chance for an invasion of your privacy into your most intimate information. What would you want someone to have access to less than your medical records? And you can't put that genie back in the bottle. At at time when companies are looking at ways to carve people out of their group plans, this should be a concern for all of us. Now they're looking to charge you nominally more if your obese (25% of the US population, by the way) and if we don't push back on that, they'll see what they can force feed us next. Healthcare that is both affordable and not tied to your employer would be a good idea. Let employers lose the tax advantages of offering these plans to their employees and see if we can do something beneficial with that extra revenue.