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Freedom to smoke does not work with public health services, as your freedom to harm yourself is also harming your fellow citizens who have to pay for your treat
by stubish 5y ago
Freedom to smoke does not work with public health services, as your freedom to harm yourself is also harming your fellow citizens who have to pay for your treatments. You can't even have a system where people get to opt out of public health coverage, or you end up with people dying on the streets who opted out and later find they can't cover their health costs.
- 650 5y agoFreedom to consume more than 3000 calories/day does not work with public health services, as your freedom to harm yourself is also harming your fellow citizens who have to pay for your treatments. You can't even have a system where people get to opt out of public health coverage, or you end up with people dying on the streets who opted out and later find they can't cover their health costs. Not a shot at you, just a comment about the dangers of excess paternalism. (slippery slope)
- MCllorf 5y agoIf they took the same heavy-handed approach to diet that they took with smoking I'd find the policy approach a lot more tolerable honestly. Just picking one or the other seems like discrimination because I think generally being fat is comparably unhealthy to smoking.
- ipaddr 5y agoSmokers pay more into the health care system than they extract because of premature deaths. Should non-smokers pay a health tax for not smoking?
- brokenmachine 5y ago>Smokers pay more into the health care system than they extract because of premature deaths. Citation please.