While unhealthy individuals cost the health care system more early on in their life, healthy individuals tend to cost more in the long run because individuals l

While unhealthy individuals cost the health care system more early on in their life, healthy individuals tend to cost more in the long run because individuals live longer and thus require more treatment [1, 2]. In fact, one could argue unhealthy people are better for universal health care and universal retirement systems because they collect less retirement while still generally dying after age 65~70 (after having stopped working and having paid the maximum amount of money into these systems through taxes and retirement savings). [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-obesity-and-smoking-do-not-cost-health-care-systems-money/#710d8dc164aa https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-... [2] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...