> but they need to pay their own healthcare costs somehow. I think you should read this as arguing for Tax on Negative Externality, also called a Pigovian tax.

> but they need to pay their own healthcare costs somehow. I think you should read this as arguing for Tax on Negative Externality, also called a Pigovian tax. Such taxation aims to solve the problem that the social cost of a market activity is not covered by the private cost of the activity.