Brave men and women in the armed forces already get veteran health benefits don’t they?
It’s understood that their career places them in harms way to protect the rest of us. There is a legitimate public need in providing them with free quality health care paid for by the taxpayers they protect.
Am I missing something?
Lots of things - but I am not going to spell it out tonight.
Briefly, it comes down to “risk pools”. People should be allowed to join the risk pool they favor, and not forced to join ones that they do not.
For example, Social Security is a plan I would never have joined, given a chioce.
Ditto Medicaide.
All of the “Government” attempts to control behavior, are attempts to contol risk.
Helmet laws, non-smoking laws, you name it.
So, until we dump the idea of forced shared risk, the government will increasingly try to micromanage risk-taking behavior.
So long, free and open society. Must have been nice, when it existed.