article_snippet: Asked about a fat tax as a potential solution, making customers pay a heftier tax on junk food than healthy produce, Katie scoffs and suggests a far more radical option.
article_snippet: Katie says: 'I’m not averse to the idea of a fat tax, but I would go much more brutal than that. '
article_snippet: Katie continued: 'Obese people are bankrupting us
article_snippet: - Obese people cost us something like £17.4 billion last year. '
article_snippet: So, We should have a social security insurance scheme, whereby people are charged if people don’t make a genuine effort to look after they do own health. '
article_snippet: If you don’t look after your own health, guess what?
article_snippet: And if you eat yourself into being morbidly obese, then you’re going to pay for your hip operation as well. '
article_snippet: That would make people own people problems better than some kind of fat tax. '