Sadly, the People Are Not Reasonably Enlightened

What do you do when people keep eating too much even though it would be better for them--and society--for them to eat less?

Well, you can have intensive counseling for those people who eat too much. People who eat too much cost the health care system a lot.

Except that the counseling would be more expensive than any results in the short run.

And those costs would be shifted to those who don't eat too much rather than being on the wallet of those who eat too much and pay higher insurance premiums now.

And in the long run there is no proof that such counseling does any good, meaning costs in the long run won't go down, either.

Perhaps we can simply wait and see what reasonably enlightened despots in Peking do in the face of their own weight problem.

Or, depending on the Supreme Court ruling tomorrow on ObamaCare, our government can simply skip the futile counseling route and simply order those with a weight problem to eat brocolli and limit their sugary drinks to 16 ounces or less.

Remember, when government "cares," they care about what they care about--not what you might as an individual.