Are they going to ask smokers and the obese to stop paying National Insurance then ??, because I am 44 year old UK citizen, weigh 11 stone 8 lbs which is a normal weight for my BMI, dont smoke, drink rarely and have paid National Insurance all my life. I have needed the NHS very very rarely and I dont mind paying for people who have paid into the system to get the treatment they need out of my contributions even if they smoke or overeat. What I object to are the health tourists who havent paid a penny in that rock up for treatment and disappear without paying, or like I saw in my GP's reception last year recently arrived cultural enrichers shouting and screaming that they arent going to the head of the line and reducing the receptionist to tears. Worked though, he went straight in to the dismay of those patiently waiting. Why no crackdown on them ??, suppose its just easier to have a go at the smokers and the salad dodgers who finanace the system rather than those abusing it. Its funny that here in the UK if you smoke or eat, which are legal activity that contributes to the economy, you are treated like some kind of scumbag and denied treatment. But if you're a drug addict, an illegal activity that costs the economy, you get every treatment in the sun thrown at you and you're treated like a victim for what I consider to be a self inflicted injury just like being overweight or smoking.

I was at the Doctors recently and the first question I was asked on sitting down was how much I smoke and drink, I was there for a cycling injury. The Doctor was sitting there, clearly no stranger to a takeaway and a man who puts his belt on with a boomerang, lecturing me on "healthy living" and repeating the questions about smoking and drinking. Yeah, lets go for a few laps of the car park you hypocritical lard arse.

I'm an airline pilot. It can be quite stressful. Say I need NHS treatement later in life is that going to be refused by an overweight doctor so the NHS can treat junkies with kid gloves ??, a lot of my colleagues smoke .. are they going to be refused treatment for a legal activity that they partake of to reduce stress from a system they have financed all their working lives ?? .. Ridiculous.