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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (8286)	8/14/2009 5:13:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

A lot of it is politics. Not just a matter of politics in terms of political forces getting laws and regulations passed that demand some things be covered, but also thoughts about what type of restrictions will generate huge anger and possible negative consequences for the insurance companies, and what types of activities are considered fully normal/acceptable/ok and/or a private matter and what types are not. Smoking was considered (for lack of a better term) "fully normal", that ideas decaying or has already decayed. Now smoking/smokers are becoming more acceptable as a target. I imagine at the peak of the "smoking is normal/ok" idea smokers probably where not charged extra for health insurance. Its possible that obesity could be following smoking, but unhealthy diets, or lack of exercise that don't lead to obesity probably wont be even though both are not healthy. Charging based on them would be to complex to deal with and the attempt would be too intrusive.