If Medicaid stopped treating smokers it would have to stop treating people with other poor lifestyle choices.
It will never happen.
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>>If Medicaid stopped treating smokers it would have to stop treating people with other poor lifestyle choices.
It will never happen<<
I would not count on that so quickly.
Smoking is politically correct to hate. Look at this rule.
There has also been talk of drug testing for public housing (I found a proposed bill from last year).
So it is possible they will add lifestyle choices, starting with smoking but next up it might be a drug/alcohol screening to control costs.
I normally don’t believe much in slippery slope arguments but this isn’t slippery slope so much as camel in the tent.
Hey! All you holier-than-thou freepers, if in fact you are.....give it a rest. Smoking is not healthy and is smelly however, so does Marijuana smokers, they are really smelly.....I’ve known a lot of non smokers who died of lung cancer and other ailments related to (”they say”) smoking.
This is similar to the question “are the right people dying in the opioid crisis?” in the sense that bad behaviors are a part of an elastic and faulty human behavior. If you could snap your fingers and eliminate the opioid problem, how many of the folks presently headed in the direction of an opioid OD would just change directions slightly and OD on something else?
With these smokers, I suppose the upside is reduced life expectancy. The downside is - it’s all public services that will be consumed until then.
In the public health sphere, you sense the mentality is that you will never eliminate the problem, so you must accommodate it. I say, not on the public dime!
“If Medicaid stopped treating smokers it would have to stop treating people with other poor lifestyle choices.
It will never happen.”
You mean like how the British NHS won’t treat smokers, drunks, or the obese?