How will universal healthcare deal with self-imposed health problems (smoking-related, obesity, alcohol/drug)?While I'm eating salad and fish and working out, tens of millions of Americans are eating Big Macs, drinking too much beer and smoking while lounging on their couches watching 30 Rock.
Is Obama telling me that 25 years down the road when they have lung cancer, heart disease, diabetes and liver problems, and I'm still fit, entirely due to different lifestyles, I'm going to have to foot the bill for their healthcare costs?
How is that fair?
Avail, it won't reduce my contact with communicable diseases - - you know what would? Better immigration enforcement.
Um, chukki, no, the numbers are clear - most health problems in the US are self-imposed.
http://www.obesityepidemic.us/a71374-diabetes-epidemic-through-self-inflicted-obesity.cfm
http://www.medindia.net/news/Smoking-High-BP-Obesity-Leading-Causes-of-Premature-Mortality-in-US-50629-1.htm
http://www.doctorslounge.com/primary/articles/obesity_death/
~American~
NO ITS NOT FAIR AND I THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE THE FREE INS TO THOSE WHO ARE WORKING AND WHO DO NOT SMOKE. THAT SHOULD BE ONE THE OF THE REQUIREMENTS.
docholiday
You will do exactly as the government tells you to do, or be fined and dropped from the welfare community health care system. Fat people will be shunned from society as they will raise the cost for all Americans tax shares. All non perfect Americans will be a burden to the tax payer. You will be humiliated into loosing weight or stoned in the street.
roadhazzards
Well if this country still has any balls left we will never have government mandated "Universal Health care".
Revolt Already Cowards
The same way it deals with such issues in the other nations with universal health care: regulate substances like alcohol and tobacco with strong taxes, limit the availability of junk food, promote a healthy life style on the media and only take care of conditions that affect the survival of the person (like cancer, vascular issues, etc.).
angels_harp_2000
No loss of coverage..... because the "poor" are the ones most guilty of being fat.... smoking... drinking.... using drugs....
Oshama will NEVER allow himself to appear as NOT 'pro-poor".
He is their "savior".... he is their "chosen one"....
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