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Should health insurance, private or public, really pay to deal with people's self-induced health problems from eating too much, smoking, etc?
by dimensi0nal 6y ago
Should health insurance, private or public, really pay to deal with people's self-induced health problems from eating too much, smoking, etc?
- coronadisaster 6y agoMaybe the health insurance companies should sue tobacco and fast food companies amoung others?
- maxerickson 6y agoA healthcare system should strive to make the care people need affordable. Your framing is boring, we need to figure out how to make the care as widely available as possible regardless of the payment model.
- wwweston 6y agoCertainly an issue insurers have been thinking about for a while. Funding certain kinds of care with heavy taxes on things like smoking makes a lot sense. Other things like unhealthy eating (or sitting, HN participants, lookin' at you) are so much harder to draw easy lines dividing contributing activity from everyday liberties that it makes less sense. You can work at the margins with something like soda taxes or maybe even incentives around bloodwork but the tradeoffs are less clear along with the dividing lines.
- paulcole 6y agoYes.