“Very good ideas.....I’d add stopping gubmint mandated insurance coverage, such as males being forced to purchase insurance to cover pregnancy.”
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Thanks.
The whole concept of shared risk is unfair to the majority of policy holders. The health care costs of the overeating, non-exercising 300 lb hypertensive, diabetic are borne by all the members of his “group”. Much more individaul assessment of risk and consequent adjustment in PERSONAL out-of-pocket premiums would be more fair.
My list was just off the top of my head; it wasn’t in any particular order. I agree that tort reform is of fundamental importance, and not just in the area of healthcare.
Boy, you said a mouthful there!
I'm 45. I work hard to keep my weight in check, along with my BP and cholesterol because I'm a pilot and I want to keep flying as long as possible. Both my siblings are 300+ pounders and I could easily be that heavy, too, if I didn't take active measures to keep myself in shape. It absolutely frosts me that I have to "share" in the health care costs of people who think sugar is one of the four food groups. You can't go to a grocery store these days without seeing a parade of "widettes" pushing around a cart full of sodas, cupcakes, potato chips and other empty calorie junk food.
I'm certainly not in favor of, or in any way calling for "food police". However, if we don't get a handle on this obesity issue and soon, in a few years we're going to look back and realize that the cost of health care now is dirt cheap. Grouping obese people together and letting them share the elevated costs of their health care, caused primarily by by their voluntary fork-in-mouth disease, would be a great place to start, IMHO.