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Indeed. Not to politicize these findings, but the travesty of socialized healthcare is the moral hazard implicit in universally treating lifestyle diseases such
by vox_mollis 11y ago
Indeed. Not to politicize these findings, but the travesty of socialized healthcare is the moral hazard implicit in universally treating lifestyle diseases such as type II diabetes, (most) lung cancer, alcoholism, etc.
We're enabling destructive and expensive health pandemics to spare people their precious feelings.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Not to politicize these findings, but the travesty of socialized healthcare is the moral hazard implicit in universally treating lifestyle diseases such as type II diabetes In socialized medicine, its more likely that the treatment for those will be early and effective behavior interventions treating the lifestyle problem. > We're enabling destructive and expensive health pandemics to spare people their precious feelings. That would be more credible of an argument if the places with socialized medicine and universal treatment had more of these problems than the place in the OECD with the least degree of socialized medicine and universal access to healthcare. The problem isn't so much that you've politicized the findings as that in your drive to do so, you've completely ignored the facts on the ground.
- vox_mollis 11y agoThis is a fair rebuttal, but pointing out US vs EU/Japan obesity does not in any way establish causality. We're both merely arguing correlation: Me: Healthcare access is positively correlated across time with lifestyle disease. You: Healthcare access is negatively correlated across space with lifestyle disease.