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Originally Posted by DouglasMo
Ridiculous conversation...first, now lung cancer is occurring more often in people who do not, I repeat do not, smoke.
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What's your conclusion? It's okay to smoke because you might get lung cancer anyway?
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Most life threatening diseases are a part and parcel of getting old and genes. Cancer is familial or indiscriminate or caused by the environment.
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That may be true but mainly because of the poor lifestyle environment that
most people promote.
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All of the above posts seems to want to "punish" the sick because they got sick!!!
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That's the emotional interpretation. It's not about that at all. It's simply about paying appropriately for the risk one chooses to take. Just as one would do with any other type of insurance. If one buys a house in a flood zone one pays more for insurance to cover the added risk of flooding. It's a simple concept.
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When you are ill like that the last thing you need is to have large bills, people pointing fingers at you that you could have stopped it by "being healthy" Folks, we are mortal, not immortal, and unless you die in an accident, some illness is probably going to get you. How many do you know die peacefully in their sleep? Now you are talking about making people pay more when they get sick? Please!!!
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Theatrics asside, it's not about charging sick people more. It's about charging higher premiums to those who choose to take higher (undue) risks. One's premium would go down as soon as the risky behavior is discontinued.