“What kinds of unhealthy lifestyles are they talking about?”
Quite so...who decides what is unhealthy? Is rock-climbing unhealthy? Surely those who indulge in extreme sports have proportionally higher injury rates.
What about driving a car?
The point is that you do not withold treatment based on value judgements, this is against the basic tenet of medicine, however frustrating it may be.
The whys and wherefores of having a socialised health service is a completly different discussion. The point is that if you have a NHS then the same level of care must be available to all.
I think that will be the point of socialized medicine.
Eventually EVERYTHING is healthcare.
Remember when those socialist doctors wanted gun control to be a “health care” issue?
Its the Joseph Koctau Joy Joy Be Well version of life behavior enforcement.
If you are going to exclude the unhealthy, then surely that must mean that people with genetic tendencies that put them at risk ought to be on the outs.
Also, people who eat too much salt. There ought to be a Salt Police that go around making sure only those who limit their sodium intake qualify for government health care.
Or better yet, just exclude everyone, because we all have a 100% risk of getting sick at some point in our lives. Just think how much money the system would save then!