Should Congress pass a law requiring everyone to join a gym and work-out at least once a week? And also prohibit certain unhealthy foods?
Forcing everyone to join a private gym is 1. Treading the constitutional rights. If people want to be fat let them be fat.
People have to make their own choices on being healthy and active. 2. Not everyone can afford to have a private gym memberships.
Private gyms are expensive and could cost thousands of dollars a year and in this economy not many Americans can afford this. For example Bally total fitness membership is 50 bucks a month plus fees(ballyfitness.com)! Thats at least 600 dollars a years just for one person and I have four people in my family so as you see this adds up.
Prohibiting fast food restaurants would be horrific. There would be so many jobs lost and so many unemployed people we would most likely go into another depression.
It appears that your question is intended to be rhetorical. Accordingly, I'll first explain why the answer is "obviously not", and then address what I believe is your underlying question - how is forcing people to get health insurance different? In general, in a free society such as ours there should not be laws regulating people's behaviors that do not impinge too far on other people's freedoms.
Thus, the government has no right to force people to go to the gym, or work out, or stop eating unhealthy foods. However, the government does have the right to prevent people from smoking in public where their smoke will affect others. As for forcing people to buy health insurance, there is a significant difference.At some point, most people who are young and healthy today will need health-care.
They may suffer an accident, or fall ill with some dread disease, or simply age and start needing chronic care. This is true even if they eat healthy and go to the gym every day. When these people will need health-care, they will expect to be cared for.
They will expect that if they are brought to to the ER, a doctor will take care of them. If they need emergency surgery, or a blood transfusion, that these will be provided. If they cannot afford the enormous costs for an extended hospital stay and such is needed, they will expect the hospital to "eat" the cost.
Thus, given the fact that we are not barbaric enough to turn away an ill or injured person simply because s/he chose not to buy insurance, society (though the government) has the right to require people to buy health insurance. This is even more so, when the government also offers tax incentives that offset the cost of this health insurance.
What about certain and unhealthy food, then yes, they should pass this type of law. But what about requiring people to go to the gym, it is not fear because some people like to be fat and overweight, while some people have normal weight then why they should go to the gym?
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