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Because I don't want to pay for someone's expensive treatment due to a high risk behavior like smoking, drinking, overeating, and general laziness. Why should I have to pay for someone's insulin shots because they decided to eat a bag of donuts for breakfast and then have a snickers and a coke for lunch? Do you want to pay for my heart surgery because I smoked a pack a day for 20 years (not that I smoke)? How about spending millions a year on AIDS treatments that are totally preventable in the vast majority of the cases. Do we get to pick up the tab on that too?

Likewise, I don't like the idea of forcing someone to quit smoking, or quit eating fast food because we live under a socialized healthcare system. Even though it's a bad choice it's your right to make that choice. Socialized healthcare limits freedom.

Also, I can't buy into a health care system that concentrates more energy on curing symptoms and surviving diseases rather than prevention or curing the disease completely. I also belive that I do not need a doctor to prescribe a drug for me even if it's not approved by the FDA. The FDA is just a mafia front group for the drug companies to keep their control on the industry.