Girth of a nation :: The Eclectic Econoclast
(Title comes from NYT op-ed by Krugman)

Obesity is caused by personal choices. The Eclectic Econoclast says let's not create incentives to encourage people to be overweight.

When we let the gubmnt provide a really high health safety net, we do two things: (1) We create serious moral hazard problems. People do not have to bear the costs of risks they take. People can overeat, incur health costs, and not bear those costs themselves. . . . (2) More problematic is that gubmnt health care is used as a justification for intervention in all sorts of other areas of our lives.