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I see no need to subsidize their choices. Its not shitting on them, its just not enabling them. The vast majority of type 2 diabetics have a BMI >25. It is a us
by loonster 5y ago
I see no need to subsidize their choices. Its not shitting on them, its just not enabling them. The vast majority of type 2 diabetics have a BMI >25. It is a user preventable disease.
If for some reason they still have diabetes with a BMI <25, then subsidize it.
- renewiltord 5y agoAnd this is exactly why I don't want universal healthcare in America. We'll need everyone to conform to a rigid interpretation of life. My BMI is 22, so I'm fine, but I also like riding a motorcycle. With UHC, suddenly folks like this will try to deny me care because I'm taking on non-normative risk. Fine, do so if you want, but I want to be tax-exempt. You can have your UHC, but you pay for it. But folks won't do this. Instead they want to take my money and then give it to themselves by denying me 'subsidies'. No thanks, I'll keep my money and give it to Anthem. No UHC in the USA.
- eropple 5y agoThe vast majority of type 2 diabetics--and the vast majority of Americans--live in a existentially threatening mess of financial crisis and mind-melting advertising and pressure on a thousand axes that didn't exist a century ago and are being ground into powder to enable a thin film of the truly rich to live like kings and to enable people in the computing class to live lives of only moderate precarity. I dunno, it just doesn't seem all that hard to have have some really simple baseline humanity for the grist in the mill trying to find a moment of respite in something bad for them--ingrained literally decades before and in plenty of cases before they had the personal automony to decide for themselves. Even if their BMI is over 25, heaven forfend.