[Wolfstar]

ummm...even the most fanatically health conscious will eventually get sick if they live long enough. Or they will have accidents. Or have a sudden health crisis due to a previously undiscovered birth defect or genetic disorder. There are thousands of causes for illness and incapacitation, most of which have nothing to do with life style choices.

Not one single person ever born avoided experiencing some kind of health crisis, even if that crisis was something that caused instant death. Any health crisis short of instant death requires medical treatment.

Are you saying that the only people who "deserve" medical treatment are those who live an approved version of a healthy life style? Just goes to show that totalitarian impulses are not exclusively of the Left.

[pleikumud]

Those with self-inflicted liver disease, self-inflicted lung cancer, self-inflicted diabetes, self-inflicted heart disease, AIDS from gay sex, et cetera, are driving up medical expenses, including my cost of insurance. Obviously, we all die of something eventually, and many could not have prevented the disease they currently have. But millions of people could have prevented their costly disease if they had been more responsible.