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Originally Posted by filtherton
Is the government taxing jumping off a bridge?
I believe in reality because that is where I exist. In reality, people who engage in activities which tend to increase their susceptibility to diseases requiring expensive treatment increase the taxes I pay and the money I spend on healthcare (via private industry). So yes, in their slow painful suicides are a drain on both public and private resources.
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I'm trying to be patient because I did start the thread as well as this line of thought - I really don't understand the vitriol. Again, it's all in fun.
The private system chooses every day who to treat and I don't mean at the insurance level....at the doctor level. A doctor will not give a liver transplant to a person who is brain-dead from cancer.
Health insurance costs more right now for smokers. Why can't it cost more for tanning bed users? Would the evil corporation be sticking it to pasty people for a buck?
There isn't a smoker in this country who doesn't know what they are doing to themselves - at what point does it convert over to them willfully killing themselves? At what point, in the name of conserving those resources, does the healthcare system simply let them do it? (Assuming, we agree that an individual has a right to take their own life.)