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Originally Posted by JinnKai
That's a damn slippery slope. If someone chooses to smoke and ends up with lung cancer, you think that cancer treatment is thereby an "elective" procedure? Universal health care shouldn't cover this person's treatment (and possibly preventing their DEATH) because they made a bad choice?
If I make the choice to go into my burning house and drag out dogs out so they don't burn to death, universal health care shouldn't cover any burn management treatment because I "elected" to do so?
There are a lot of choices to make in life, and many of them are bad. The idea of "Universal Health Care," however, is to prevent and treat human suffering and death. I fail to see how "choices" they make are even relevant. The fact is that they're suffering now.
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I live in a tri-state area, so companies providing health benefits can easily be seen how they differ from state to state working for the SAME company but benefits differ.
In one company that I worked for the benefits were:
in NJ, they didn't cover ANY prenatal
in NY, they covered full up to $X,
in CT, they covered up to a certain amount via a deductable.
all these things are choices and they all affect different things. Move to NYC, pay tax on toilet paper, live in NJ pay only 3% tax for most household things.
makes me toss up my hands and say whaddayagonnado?
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