Good for him. Why should he be forced to buy something that it is unlikely he'll use. Healthy, 22-year old males don't go see doctors unless they get hurt. They don't go for checkups. They don't go if they got a case of the sniffles. I didn't see a doctor one single time throughout my late teens, 20s and early 30s. Not once.
Of course, healthcare and specifically Obamacare are dependent upon healthy, 20 and 30-something males paying for insurance they won't use.
Let him smoke. He's contributing significantly to other people's health care costs through the exorbitant taxes he's paying for cigarettes.
Of course nobody will want to sell him insurance when he finally does develop a sickness and find it’s cancer. If he goes on the public dole healthcare then he’s sucking off all of us and he’ll easily use more than he’s ever contributed via cig taxes. Besides those taxes aren’t paying for anything medical. They go into the general fund.
Taxes ($1.01 federal tax, $1.41 TX state excise tax, plus state and local sales tax) represent over 56% of the cost of a pack of smokes. Add in the tobacco settlement funds to states in perpetuity. This young man is paying predatory tax rates.
Sounds like a perfect setup for black market industry.
Good for him. Why should he be forced to buy something that it is unlikely he’ll use. Healthy,