A question for the statists here who support restrictions such as this: when you are old and feeble, suffering from alzheimers and must wear diapers and be fed by someone else and totally dependent upon others for the simplest of tasks, will you pay your own astronomical health care costs out of pocket, or will you force us smokers, who you people claim live shorter lives, to pay for your choice to out live your usefulness via our insurance?
Just curious.
I never said anything about restrictions. If smokers want to start their own insurance plan to finance each other’s COPD, cancer, and heart disease, that would be perfectly fine with me.
Also, this argument comparing chronic illness resulting from willful lifestyle choices to normal aging processes is a red herring. People don’t CHOOSE to get Alzheimer’s or osteoarthritis. And the majority of people who live healthy lives do NOT end up in a nursing home for 20 years. Compressed morbidity.
I never said anything about restrictions. If smokers want to start their own insurance plan to finance each other’s COPD, cancer, and heart disease, that would be perfectly fine with me.
Also, this argument comparing chronic illness resulting from willful lifestyle choices to normal aging processes is a red herring. People don’t CHOOSE to get Alzheimer’s or osteoarthritis. And the majority of people who live healthy lives do NOT end up in a nursing home for 20 years. Compressed morbidity.