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(4) Is this paternalism? Sidestepping grand debates on welfare criteria, the implications for financing the huge costs for treating diabetes etc. matter. Freedom of choice not to exercise would imply that individuals have to pay the costs for their health problems themselves...

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...indeed there is some movement of especially US health insurance contracts to provide people with step counters, who then influence their insurance payments. If the health system stays a collective system,urban redesign is the most important lever to get people to do exercise.

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