RFK Jr.: If You Eat Doughnuts or Smoke, Should Society Pay for Your Health Care?

MSN/Washington Post ^ | 4/11 | Lauren Weber

[Tell It Right]

How about the U.S. not pay for anyone’s health care?

[Shady]

I do like a doughnut as a treat, it has been months since I had one, but chocolate chip cookies? Oh darn. (I’m hitting the Gym every M-W-F at 6:45 am and I am 71. Won’t stop. Can’t stop.

[nickcarraway]

I read a long time ago, that smokers cost healthcare less, because they die sooner. Anyone know about that?

[Arcadian Empire]

Soda and smoking are very different, so it is counterproductive to conflate the two.

I support campaigns against smoking, and encourage buildings to ban it.

[pierrem15]

I'm not sure how many people can afford to smoke three packs a day.

Given what most of us pay for health insurance, base-jumping meth heads should be fully covered.

[Jim W N]

Here we go...

First you give the federal gov't the unconstitutional right to govern your healthcare.

Next, gov't will start managing your life.

NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOV'T INTERFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE!!!!!

[Arcadian Empire]

Do you support any assistance to any foreign country?

Are they more worth helping than your fellow Americans?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Should “society” charge you for health care they do not intend to provide unless you obey them?

[Beowulf9]

I think society should pay for my donuts. Yes.

[stanne]

Government should pay for any health care. We have privacy. But not with a socialist government like RFK believes in

[Red Badger]

base-jumping meth heads?

Bet there ain’t too many of those............

[pierrem15]

Well, retirement plans generally save: you pay in for 40 years and don't live to collect.

Healthcare would depend on how much and what kind of treatment one receives.

There's also he fact that about 25% of people are basically immune to lung cancer risks because they have a gene that shuts off lung cell mutations.

[FreedomNotSafety]

“If you’re smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, or engaging in unhealthy sexual practices, should you expect society to pay when you get sick?”

Better: Should society pay for your healthcare?

Or your retirement or your education or for the flood or wind that damaged your property or your mortgage or your cell phone or your groceries.

[stanne]

Government should not pay for any health care. We have privacy. But not with a socialist government like RFK believes in

Where is it in the founding documents?

[SecondAmendment]

Throw being a homosexual and/or promiscuous in the discussion and we can talk.

[nickcarraway]

That’s why some of us didn’t want ACA.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I read a long time ago, that smokers cost healthcare less, because they die sooner. Anyone know about that?

My father died of Salem at the age of 75. It's unbelievable how much his last five years of ill health cost someone.

[rdcbn1]

Health and physical fitness is not impacted by eating a few doughnuts.

[yldstrk]

Yuck I hate donuts. I do not want to pay for the health care of smokers or drinkers. Or obese people.