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The problem with completely free health care is that there's no incentive to be healthy. In other words if you smoke etc it has no negative impact to you financ
by FollowSteph3 12y ago
The problem with completely free health care is that there's no incentive to be healthy. In other words if you smoke etc it has no negative impact to you financially. So there has to be some kind of balances to check for things like this. This drug is a very bad example but a lot of the arguments are for free health care and research, and this is one of the big issues with that...
- watwut 12y agoI can tell with certainty that getting cancer sux even if they treat you for free. Broken leg, hearth stroke or even flu sux to. So does most diseases and injuries known to humanity.
- josephschmoe 12y agoShouldn't the consequence for bad decision be being unhealthy? I mean, at least for me, my health is a very significant priority in my life.
- CodeMage 12y agoJust out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm not trying to be confrontational -- I'm genuinely curious, because you sound like someone who hasn't had anything worse than a flu so far. Here's an incentive to be healthy: medicine is not magic. It's not like I can opt to do all sorts of unhealthy stuff and just keep paying a certain sum to live a completely normal life. For example, you mention smoking. I smoked for 5 years, one pack a day on the average. After a while, I was coughing my self to sleep at night. There's no pill or treatment that will fix that magically and allow you to keep smoking. Only quitting made it go away.