01-27-2013, 06:08 PM
Health care should be free for every citizen, paid for out of taxes. The govt. would soon start to put serious money into preventative care and cessation/weight-loss type programs, because not doing so would soon prove very expensive. I mean, shit, you might have to wage a few less wars to pay for it!
How to tax? From each of you as you are able-to each of you as you have need.
A 63 year old obese smoker would not be disallowed treatment, but the treatment would involve admission to and supervision in those preventative programs.
Most people want to be healthy, to be productive and not burden others, but when need arises, even when the need is exacerbated by genetic propensity or boring old human weakness, the need should be met by society.
Anything else is pretty low in my opinion.
If you can't look after the weakest in your society, then, truly you don't have a society worth maintaining.
How to tax? From each of you as you are able-to each of you as you have need.
A 63 year old obese smoker would not be disallowed treatment, but the treatment would involve admission to and supervision in those preventative programs.
Most people want to be healthy, to be productive and not burden others, but when need arises, even when the need is exacerbated by genetic propensity or boring old human weakness, the need should be met by society.
Anything else is pretty low in my opinion.
If you can't look after the weakest in your society, then, truly you don't have a society worth maintaining.