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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Tobias Ekman who wrote (449062)10/4/2011 9:31:51 AM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 794009
 
If the public pays for your healthcare, it thinks it has the right to insist that you would not engage in behavior which may increase costs. They'll make you wear a helmet, eat healthy, stop skydiving, lose weight, take care of Your children in a certain prescribed way...... etc. It makes some sense - why should you and I have to come up with a million dollars a year to take care of someone who smokes like a chimney and refuses even to try to quit smoking? Or for someone who refused to wear a seatbelt and broke the neck?

I'm sure there must be a solution, a sensible compromise somewhere out there, but it's not easy to find. And probably even harder to maintain. Part of the compromise must be to keep the government intrusion to a minimum (good luck with that).
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