[Lurker]

“I can agree with not paying for treatment for smokers suffering from smoking related diseases using public money”

So of course you agree that all they taxes they have paid into the system should be refunded, plus interest. Right?

[from occupied ga]

So of course you agree that all they taxes they have paid into the system should be refunded, plus interest. Right?

No why should I agree on that? It certainly is NOT a logical extension of not paying for self destructive behaviors from a shared risk pool. BTW I don't think AIDS treatment should be paid for by my tax dollars either.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

If I were President, I'd offer to buy back every Medicare card, and all its "benefits", for what the individual had had deducted from his lifetime paychecks, plus 5% compound interest. For most people, this would be about $75,000 to $150,000.

It would be a total financial win toward reducing our deficit projections .....

until a couple of years later, when the millions who had taken those buybacks, and then pi$$ed away the money, started showing up in emergency rooms pleading for "help".