The NHS should look at it's own staff first! No public money should be spent on overweight/ obese people. Nor on those who can't have kids - No public money on IVF at all!

It's nigh on impossible to get a doctors appointment now, the only people I know that use the NHS regularly are the obese, I'm sick of having paid in my entire life and now an OAP I can't get to see my GP.

Construction can't get staff??? We have millions of immigrants, make them work,

I lost weight. I want my money, which I already gave you.🤔

The body positivity movement has a lot to answer for.

The State should educate the young, parents should inculcate good habits ......... but then the State should get out of our lives.

The root cause is gluttony and laziness lets have it right as Steve Bunce says.

I would say. The bonkers idea might work. But, with one condition. The money gets paid only when they reach their final healthy weight and. It's one chance only. Otherwise, you'll just be creating a new way for people to earn money. They'll just eat and then lose a bit and repeat. It all stems from some basic facts about recent and current life. People may be old enough to be classed as adults. But mentally they are just kids. And two, people may become parents but they don't act like parents and the kids get raised badly. And then it repeats and we end up with all the madness of the current world.

It's a fallacy that if people lived longer it would necessarily cost the NHS more money. The exact opposite is true, in fact. People would live longer if they were not suffering from the chronic diseases (T2D, CVD, etc) that drain the NHS of resources. The simple measure of cutting all added sugar and ultra processed food from the diet would go a long way towards achieving this. Additionally, much auto-immune disease and inflammation is caused by an intolerance of wheat products, so educating people about that would also be beneficial. Sadly, people don't know this, and are bombarded with bad dietary advice, junk food advertising, vending machines, fake 'health' foods and terrible school and hospital food. The truth is that there's too much money at stake. Highly processed food and insulin are big money-spinners for the manufacturers. I'm not optimistic about change coming from the top down any time soon. Offering £400 and expecting it to make any difference is a joke.

One has to retrain their brain when they see , biscuits, cakes, etc to see instead of those tasty treats Bags of Sugar. I have stopped eating in between meals and lost 1 stone so far. Rows and rows of biscuits etc. as mentioned my brain see bags of sweet sugar.

How can an Ancor talk about being Obese when he is Obese ...? Thats why he is saying let them do what they want because he knows he is chunky but man..!

£400 is a drop in the ocean compared to the vast amounts the nhs spends on people because they're obese. It makes more financial sense to get them to lose weight, rathan than spend decades treating their many health issues. It would also relieve pressure on social services, as these people require more support at a much younger age.

I lost 8 stone where's my doh 🤔

Ok you lose the weight your still going to have loose skin are the Government going to pay for putting that right - Also a lot of serious medication comes with weight gain, what are we going to do for those folk - Such as me I can walk and walk one day, then I won't be able to get out of bed the next due to my disability