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Originally Posted by Villages PL
How do you feel about the government sticking their hands in our pockets to get the tax money they need to pay for all the bypass operations and other procedures for people who are overweight, obese or very close to it?
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Well, when you sign up for market insurance or public insurance like Medicare, you are always joining a pool of people with varying risks, so that the whole pool pays a person's bills instead of bearing the debt alone.
The solution if you don't like the others' risky lifestyles is to go self-insured….as in self-pay.
Good luck as a self-insured if you become one of the people who gets lung cancer without ever having smoked a cigarette; or if you end up like my nurse friend who is very health conscious and is almost a teetotaler, who has cirrhosis of the liver and has had to quit her nursing career/income.