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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Is it in the Bill Of Rights?
I assume the hospital is providing insurance and smokers drive up the cost of premiums. So the hospital has a right to try to control costs. And these are costs that ultimately get passed on to hospital patients. So you're saying that smokers have a right to increase costs for others?
If I'm not mistaken, when this country was founded, most people didn't have health insurance. Most people were farmers. They took their risks and had to live with the results. Now we're all tied together by health insurance premiums.[/QUOTE
Hi villages PL: Obviously there are many issues not specifically addressed in the Bill of rights but based on its reading which encompass the first 10 amendments along with the US constitution and the Declaration of Independence the founders sought to free citizen from government interference.
Secondly, if society is going to be picking on smokers concerning increased hospital costs then where should we stop? Shall we deny coverage to people with genetic disabilities? Obesity? Old age? risky job occupations ?
How about those living in Chicago vis a vis The Villages based on safety issues?
Sometime shortly after WWII corporation began to offer hospital benefits and then it fell apart. Instead of pointing fingers let's say organization/individuals got greedy and like programs that involving money people abused it and committed fraud and corporations began backing away.
The Unaffordable Act may well make the denial to smokers moot because everyone must be covered....except congressmen and women and unions
My comments concerning freedoms go beyond this thread. Its getting scary out there
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You make so much sense, Rubicon. Please come to the cocktail party tomorrow night at Tierra Del Sol at five. I want to shake your hand and Mrs. Rubicon's too.
Now we have to get back home in time to go.
I am great fun at a cocktail party. I drink diet coke and I have never broken a gate arm either.