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I don't get the shot and never will. Under your logic all those who eat fast food for lunch everyday and don't exercise should have to pay extra for medical in
by riot504 9y ago
I don't get the shot and never will.
Under your logic all those who eat fast food for lunch everyday and don't exercise should have to pay extra for medical insurance for not taking care of themselves.
- CDRdude 9y agoI think they should pay more. However, it is harder to track than a yearly checkbox for if they had a flu shot.
- osteele 9y agoWhat is the analogy between being too young or immunocompromised to receive the vaccine, and having poor diet and exercise habits?
- kbenson 9y agoSome locations do charge a "health tax"[1] on certain food types and/or quantities of food. There are many ways to incentive/disincentivize behavior. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tax
- lovich 9y agoIf we had universal healthcare I'd believe that would be an appropriate response. Much like you can turn your home into a garbage dump and live in that if you have acres of empty land around you, but you can't in a dense city you are allowed to destroy your body but not at everyone else's expense
- naasking 9y ago> Under your logic all those who eat fast food for lunch everyday and don't exercise should have to pay extra for medical insurance for not taking care of themselves. Err, that's exactly what happens. Your premiums would definitely be higher if you live a riskier and less healthy lifestyle because you would require more costly health care at a younger age. And as another poster pointed out, we're now also coming around to the idea of disincentivizing poor food choices for the same reasons, like taxes on sugary drinks. So this is not "my logic", but in fact the prevailing logic of most people.