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Originally Posted by Geewiz
Hey, why not extend the concept to Medicare? These are valuable tax dollars - any poor health practices should exclude you from receiving these funds. Smokers, drinkers, and the obese should be put on a program and correct their poor health practices, or their co-pays should be adjusted upward. Moreover, folks who didn't work and pay into the system should be denied benefits even though their spouse paid in as the spouse only paid for himself/herself. Also, the last 12 months of life use a disproportionate amount of Medicare resources. I say - cut'em off.
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I think I am supportive of this posters concepts, but I'm also apprehensive about where such a process takes us . Should we not also charge higher premiums for risky behavior ? How about skiing, flying, sky diving, motorcycling, travel to foreign countries or even riding on streets with golf carts. These could also be assumed to carry greater health(accident) risks. Where will this take us?
