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So many health care posts and rebuttals these days. Surely a highly important issue for us collectively. But, also so political, and as a side-effect so pron
by ap22213 13y ago
So many health care posts and rebuttals these days. Surely a highly important issue for us collectively. But, also so political, and as a side-effect so prone to defensive stances.
As hackers, perhaps a good approach to these types of arguments, would be to throw out far-out ideas, if even just to push the collective pointer one way or another.
So here's my far out idea:
Maybe, instead of a single payer system, the gov't should pay each family a penalty fee (scaled exponentially) for each each family member that precedes the average, current life expectancy target (or even acquires a terminal illness). This will shift focus to the very sick or those at risk of being very sick. And, it would thereby eliminate any particular diseases or genetic limitations that push down the life expectancy. Of course, the unintended consequences would be that some family members would start killing off other family members for benefit. But, this would just highlight psychopaths, and thus be a win-win long run.