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Not that this affects the political calculus (where perception may as well be reality), but the cost burden specific to universal healthcare is actually opposit
by cthor 9mo ago
Not that this affects the political calculus (where perception may as well be reality), but the cost burden specific to universal healthcare is actually opposite this intuition.
Things like obesity, smoking, and alcoholism all kill you before you can get too old. Healthy citizens end up using far more of the far more expensive end-of-life care, to the point where it outweighs the extra healthcare the unhealthy citizens use in their youth.
- s1mplicissimus 9mo agoThis sounds like an interesting proposition, do you happen to have the numbers to back it up?
- samzub 9mo agoThis (French) study [0] published in 2023 on data from 2019 calculates that the costs from legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, including higher helthcare spend during the life of smokers/drinkers, are still higher than revenue from unspent money on pensions and taxes, and cost of healthy person living years. [0] https://www.ofdt.fr/sites/ofdt/files/2023-08/field_media_document-3235-doc_num--explnum_id-34082-.pdf https://www.ofdt.fr/sites/ofdt/files/2023-08/field_media_doc...
- seeEllArr 9mo ago[dead]