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This is exactly why so many people resist nationalizing health care. They know it'll be about 30 seconds afterwards when people start trying to tell them how to
by Gargoyle 10y ago
This is exactly why so many people resist nationalizing health care. They know it'll be about 30 seconds afterwards when people start trying to tell them how to live under the guise of "we're paying for it."
And they aren't wrong.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoIncorrect on both counts. The evidence is that most people want federally funded healthcare. http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-funded-healthcare-system.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-... And the experience of nationalised health care in other countries is very much not of being told how to live. The NHS in the UK is fairly easy-going about health promotion. If anything it could have done a lot more about smoking, whose costs have always consumed some significant percentage of the entire NHS budget. Currently it could also be doing a lot more about obesity and exercise. And about sugar consumption. But instead of going through the NHS, the British gov is seriously considering a sugar tax. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38212608 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38212608