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Beginning in 2010, Alabama, which has the second highest obesity rate in the country, will start charging all of its employees an extra $25 per month for health insurance.

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The idea is to encourage employees to act responsibly, lose weight and lower their health care needs. But critics say it will humiliate and stigmatize obese employees and amounts to nothing short of a "fat tax."

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This isn't just happening in Alabama, it's starting to rise up pretty much everywhere. What do you think?

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Post edited at 1:58 pm on Sep. 28, 2008 by Riot

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wait, they're charging everybody extra? because then how would it be a fat tax?

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"If you're deemed fit, you're exempt. But if you flunk the BMI exam, it's shape up or pay up. Obese workers will be required to see a doctor and will have to show proof of their attempt to lose weight.

The program is optional ... sort of. If you don't take the tests, you'll have to pay the $25 charge.

The $25-per-month fee is not the only way Alabama hopes to discourage bad health decisions by state employees, said the program's creator, William Ashmore, executive director of the Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board. Alabama already charges smokers a monthly $25 insurance fee. "

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listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left"
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Next they'll be robbing old ladies and cancer victims.

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I'm literally laughing my ass off right now, because of you.

I think they should have to pay so much, and then it'll come back in teh form of a gym membership.

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Next they'll be robbing old ladies and cancer victims.

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Exactly, it's like..who's next?

Ever see the movie Gattaca?

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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left"
-Marilyn Monroe

What if it's not even what they eat? What if it's just that they're built that way? I have a friend that can diet all she wants but her body just doesn't loose fat because her body's just like that.

I say bad idea.

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Make the fatties pay.

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