“Why should my Health Insurance be affected by bad decisions or even unknown circumstances that others encounter?”
Because that is what insurance is. It’s a risk pool.
As an aside, its almost certainly cheaper to give everyone a $112 shot (and that’s the retail price, probably 1/3 that if you are in a big pool) than the millions it cost for cancer treatment per person.
At 7,000 per year, assuming $1 million (conservatively) for cancer treatment that that’s $7,000,000, 000 (7 billion per year).
It’s certainly cheaper to prevent the disease.
The rest of my post got eaten. What you’re replying to is something that I copied from SoConPubbie and was going to reply to in my own words.
I agree with your post, and I’ll add this since SoConPubbie is one of the bigger Sarah Palin fans on this board. Having private insurance is still voluntary; paying federal taxes is not (without punishment, of course). Alaska, under Palin, accepted federal funds to pay for Gardisil shots. Apparently Palin didn’t mind having SoConPubbie pay for this bigbadevil vaccine (that actually saves tens of thousands of lives worldwide).