The Federal and state governments want to allow folks like this to buy into health insurance, subsidized by the responsible, after they encounter health problems.
It is akin to purchasing fire insurance after you home burns down.
The Federal and state governments want to allow folks like this to buy into health insurance, subsidized by the responsible, after they encounter health problems.
It is akin to purchasing fire insurance after you home burns down.
self inflicted - I’ve heard and it makes sense that 80-90% of all disease/illness/injury can be linked back to thought life and the stress we create in our self (staying up late, making poor choices like indiscriminate sexual partners, smoking, drugs, even OTC and Rx in some cases, addictive/cyclical anger, self hate, victim, it won’t happen to me, I’ll take care of it later mentalities mindless eating, video games, reading just for the sake of reading, addictive over exercising, internet addiction, etc- they all influence us to choose poorly, cause repetitive injury, or slowly lead to imbalance in the body or mind and illness down the road. There are many other “self” choice factors i didn’t even mention.
There is a huge spiritual component (God, self, devil) to wellness and illness that our modern medicine and health system shun for the sale of doctor/consultant visits, pills, procedures, ungodly thinking systems or activities.
Self inflicted can include overwhelming majority of people.
I think it includes just about everyone.
So where do we draw the line about self inflicted health conditions?
The problem isn't fatties eating cheeseburgers so much as it is the massive, massive population of baby boomers living longer and longer. Ironically, many of whom did take care of themselves, starting about a quarter century ago when they led society in becoming more health conscious. Having given up smoking, drinking, fast food and embracing exercise and healthy diets, they're now living long enough to need more medical care, unlike their parents who dropped dead of heart attacks at age 60.
And did I mention this population is massive? There's a whole bunch of these Boomers, their productive years behind them and a decade or two of spiraling medical costs ahead of them (not to mention pensions and social security). This is why it was mathematically imperative that young, healthy people offset their medical costs.
This demographic imbalance of baby boomers, and what they will cost society, may be beyond the ability of politicians to fix.
Exactly right.