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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Then maybe the whole publicly funded aspect of health-care has to be re-approached because it doesn't reflect the reality that Canadians expect to live in a free society where behavior isn't dictated by the state of the governments coffers. Maybe if the government didn't write a blank check for everyone's health care needs, actually bothered to calculate everyone's risk like actuaries,and then proceded to penalize those who participated in activities that increased their risk profile we wouldn't need these nuisence laws.
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Agreed... but from a government POV, what is going to cause less uproar?
-Nuisance laws like these to attempt to instill personal responsibility and reduce costs of healthcare?
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-Treating public healthcare like an insurance company would and charging people based on risk (which many would argue discriminates on socioeconomic lines)... essentially, attack the sacred cow of no-strings-attached public healthcare (which is a fallacy anyway, but that's a different argument)
We both know #2 is more effective, but the easy road is just that, the easy road... and if it accomplishes a portion of what #2 would, the government would invariably pat themselves on the back for a job well done.