Many Australian people do not live a healthy lifestyle. It is full of junk food, cigarettes, high fat processed dinners, awful fried food, lack of exercise, coffee addiction, lack of exercise, mobile phone use linked to cancer and drinking too much alcohol.... I could go on forever.

So should we have a health care card system, where we reward people who live a healthy life? I say yes!

People would swipe their card via an electronic system at selected shops that sell healthy food (and when buying healthy items) and after a certain amount of points are raised, get free shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, restaurant vouchers, tickets to music concerts and other items depending on how much they use in points.

This could save our health system billions of dollars per year. Lets get fit and go for it!

Talk about a control freak, I suggest you worry about yourself, mind your own business, & let others get on with their own lives.

From what I see about the nutrition industry, they change their minds on how much carbohydrate & how much protein we need, & is good for us, on an almost monthly basis.

Perhaps you should wait a couple of hundred years to let the "experts" sort themselves out, before becoming dictatorial on other peoples diet.

"People would swipe their card via an electronic system at selected shops that sell healthy food (and when buying healthy items) and after a certain amount of points are raised, get free shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, restaurant vouchers" Score 100 points and its a free 'Big Mac Meal' at Maccas and a look at the doco 'Super Size Me'. 1000 points and its your very own bucket of K Fried! and a pak of Laxo's. LOL. If you think its a good idea Nathan who am I to take the piss out of you, Sorry I can't resists!

Definitely not.

My health is my own business. I don't want anyone tracking me and I shop only with cash.

An electronic lifestyle is not a healthy lifestyle.

This attitude held by the "fit" where they think they shouldn't be made financially responsible for maintaining and repairing the bodies of people who don't take care of themselves is nonsense.
Unless you live alone Nathan you have no business complaining.
I'm 47, I've never been sick or injured, never visited a doctor or a hospital or made a medicare claim, but...
I have a wife and two children who've between them racked up hundreds of doctor visits and several hospital stays as well as physiotherapy and other outpatient services.
They've used up my "share" and probably then some, medicare levy for me is somewhere in the region of $600 a year, a day and a half's wages, it's essentially a free service.

Scare stuff. Where is the evidence that coffee is harmful or that cell phone use is linked to cancer? Charges have been made, but, to the best of my knowledge, nothing has been proven. While I was typing this a kookaburra just flew against my window stunning itself. Of course I should have criss-crossed the window with tape to protect the birds from accident. I should also get the neighbours to put nappies on their dogs so they won't defecate where they shouldn't. Keep away from bootleg hooch when you're on a spree. Take good care of yourself. You belong to the state and me.