Posted on 01/29/2013 7:10:13 PM PST by walford
Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die prematurely from their unhealthy habits?
Annual health care costs are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for the obese, the government says. These costs accompany sometimes heroic attempts to prolong lives, including surgery, chemotherapy and other measures.
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The question should be: do we want to live in a free society? Apparently, a lot of people don’t.
It’s really about controlling other people’s lives, the cost excuse is pure bogus hooey. Carried to its logical extreme (and that is exactly what they intend to do), a government board of our betters would be micro managing every single aspect of our lives.
If the nanny stater’s motives were so pure, they would be limiting what all these EBT cards could buy. Ever noticed the mountains of unhealthy crap people on food stamps buy? Or the obesity level of those same people? A protected constituency.
I do make my own beer, within legal guidelines.
I would never extend a digit or two at John Law and try to get around the legal guidelines.
Honest. Really, really.
/johnny
$35.00 of every carton sold in MA is tax and our
ghastly governor,Devil Patrick,wants to add another $10.00 a carton.
To add insult to injury,they tax the tax.(Sales tax)
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Taken as a group, they do anyway! The author assumes medical intervention has more of an impact than it really does. Once the disease has taken root, it's a little late to start thinking about changing the 50 years of unhealthy habit that got one to that point. The intervention -- paid for by many without the habit -- might help one to live a little longer, but it's not ever going to be possible to undo all the damage.
Let us appoint a commission and evaluate all possible unhealthy lifestyle choices. You might choose to live in Tornado Alley near railroad tracks, a factory or along the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe you watch TV more than read or wear non-hypo-allergenic makeup. Maybe your exercise habits need to be monitored to determine if it is adequate. Maybe your eating bleached flour rather than whole wheat flour. Maybe you’re drinking non-organic milk or drinking from plastic bottles rather than glass.
most of the world is obese...most of the world smokes....
Stylin’ in da camp!
There's been a lot of griping about cigarettes over the years. Mash here to hear Tex Williams explain it.
/johnny
Maybe you’re not eating enough cabbage or getting enough sleep. Maybe you don’t do Michelle Obama’s regular purges. Maybe you worry too much. Maybe you live with people who don’t cover their face when they sneeze. Maybe your pants are too tight or you wear high heels. Maybe the botox treatments don’t allow your eyelids to properly close, or maybe your lying is causing your eyelids to blink too much. Maybe you don’t go to the bathroom soon enough after coitus. Maybe you have coitus too frequently or too seldom. Maybe you don’t take power naps every day. Maybe you let your toenails grow too long before trimming.
For all these and many other instances of negligence or sloth - you shall die!
People dying earlier save the government money. I don’t understand their logic at all.
This is why private health care is so important. You might not like smokers, fat people, tall people, etc., but it is not the government's job to decide whether or not they should get health care. That's between them, their wallet, and their doctor.
To the best of my recollection the tax revenues from smokers far outweighs any drag they have on the system from their “unhealthy choice”. Last I heard it was at least double what the supposed health costs are...
....you are already living in a totalitarian dystopia.
Remember that in Thomas More's original "Utopia", people who didn't "get thar MAHNDS RAHT" </off Strother Martin> were simply put to death.
Tough call. I am going to have to think on this one, but first I’m gonna have a smoke then finish my triple chocolate sundae.
See Post # 35
That's right, slothful people don't deserve to live.
......What do you mean, you didn't get the memo? That's no excuse!
Furthermore, short people got no reason to live.
What, are you complaining there, cracka?
You sounding kinda uppity to me, judging your betters. Don't you make me go get a rope!
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