People have to be responsible for their health choices, as
they end up costing society when their bad choices cause self-inflicted
illness. Some argue this is how insurance works. Partly true, as the
healthy should invest in the health insurance system to care for the
sick and elderly. But there's a difference between those that get sick
not through their own choices but from age or environmental or other
circumstances beyond their control.
I used to underwrite insurance and those applicants that had a history
of bad choices, and consequently repeated paid losses, had to pay
more for that insurance if they were eligible at all. And they had to
undergo risk management, having our company come in to their practice to
analyze their bad behavior and they had to correct it to maintain
insurance. If they did not then there their insurance was cancelled.
Now with health insurance, if it is to a pubic right like a public
option or Medicare for all, obviously it should be provided to everyone.
Again, the healthy pay for the sick, in this case we the people pay with our tax dollars. But underwriting applicants with a
repeated history of bad behavior should go into a high risk pool where,
like regular insurance, they have to be responsible for paying
exorbitant rates commensurate for their acts until such time as they
have proven their behavior has changed.
And of course this has to be determined by nutritional SCIENCE, not just
the whims of some self-righteous, politically correct agenda. It's a
good conservative and practical value, self-responsibility.
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