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Originally Posted by BeanCounter
I could see national health care if they went about it appropriately. Set a community rate for a healthy lifestyle. If you smoke there's a 30% surcharge, if your fat then it's a 40% surcharge, smoke and fat it's 50%. If you live in California where earnings are high there is a surcharge for that. After all we don't want to subsidize well off people's health care on the backs of the poor in Arkansas and Mississippi. They're human too and have a right to health care without subsidizing the upper class. I could think of dozens of other equalizing factors also without even getting into genetic testing.  |
Smokers already are taxed, pay higher premiums.
Funny how 50yrs ago when we had triple the smokers the medical system wasn't collapsing...
One of these days someone may actually come to the realization that we're getting overcharged (especially the Ins. co's) by the care providers and drug mfgs. (which, by the way are making record profits, not the Ins. co's)
If you want something valid, how about the illegal drug trade? (non-taxed by the way) Yet the big, bad, Ins. co.s have to provide rehab and care expenses...
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. :-)