These onerous health initiatives like trans fat or smoking bans are nothing more than a Big Government sponsored behavior modification program.
It's nothing but liberal, progressive social engineering designed to hopefully reduce the need for medical care and save liberal medical entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid from sure bankruptcy. PERIOD.
FReepers are informed and they know. Anyone who can't see that is a retard.
Well, if he has his hand out to the taxpayer to pay his medical bills, then the taxpayer has a right to ask him to eat right and stop smoking.
Hello this guy is sponging off of the taxpayers. He's been smoking for 50 years. He's unrepentant and we're paying for it. As long as he is getting care on MY dime then he should have to sign a forest worth of papers and jump through a million hoops. Abolish Medicaid or at least ban illegals & people engaging in high-risk lifestyles from mooching off of it.
I agree. Seems you are talking to the nannies on these topics. You know those do-gooders that complain they are paying the tab. The same tab they are sucking from for babysitting or some other tax break the government trouth offers. Last time I looked eating and smoking were legal and we were free to make choices. Course, mountain climbing, sailing, and all the other recreational activities that rescue is expected to be available for these same folks is something they deserve (at the taxpayer's expense).
WE all feed at the same trouth--just different menus.
“I told them I eat what I want to eat and the hell with them.”
** Well from the looks of it, I think it'll be too hell with him pretty soon. You can't reason with someone like that and I wouldn't have him as a patient personally. I also do not think tax money should be given to such a person either beyond the most basic of care. Let him die. He's wasting oxygen.