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"Clearly the society should not subsidize their medical treatment..." That's one big problem - we do subsidize it. Many states even require drug addiction trea
by breischl 13y ago
"Clearly the society should not subsidize their medical treatment..."
That's one big problem - we do subsidize it. Many states even require drug addiction treatment to be rolled into health insurance. Everyone has to pay for it, so everyone has some right, or at least reasonable excuse, to tell you not to do it.
That's part of the rationale behind the Wars on Fat, Sugar, Soda, TransFats, etc etc. When your choices hit my pocketbook, then I have to care about all that stuff. It's one of the lovely side effects of socialized medicine, and socialized programs in general, that people don't like to talk or think about.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoOne of the benefits of "social medicine" that some people don't like to talk about is that socialized medicine as practiced in Europe is usually way cheaper for society and works a whole lot better... You as a rich person might survive with everyone around you obese, depending on low-quality food and low-quality health care, but infectious diseases tend to spread without consulting how much you paid for your health care plans. Bad health care actually lowers the productivity, and most above-average earners depend on productive below-average earners more than they'd like to know...
- spikels 13y agoNot just in some state but drug treatment coverage is required in policies offered on the new Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) exchanges as well for newly eligible Medicaid recipients. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/healthcare http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/healthcare
- Gormo 13y agoYou're making a very cogent and compelling argument for why health care should not be funded or mediated in any way by the state.
- RougeFemme 13y agoThe Wars on fat, sugar, etc. are also occurring outside of socialized medicine. (I assume that by socialized medicine, you mean, in the U.S.,Medicare, Medicaid, and any other health program explicitly funded and/or provided by a government entity.) These wars are also being fought by private insurance companies, where the healthy subsidize the less-healthy, and the profit motive exists.