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Originally Posted by Icantwhisper
Sorry, I know lots of people who have quit smoking and I chose poorly when I said alcoholics as cirrhosis of the liver happens due to alcohol consumption not being addicted, lots at casual drinkers suffer from it too. As 40% of the adult population are obese I guess we have a lot of people addicted to food, or people too dumb to know how to maintain a healthy weight which would exclude them from medical care based on the previous proposal
Can we include people who do adventure sports or have someone fill out a form at the hospital to determine if the cause of their injury was stupid and then determine whether they will be helped or not.
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Tobacco and alcohol are taxed far beyond what it costs to treat the people with addiction and the health problems, obesity and accidents are a part of life that our high tax rates have taken care of for decades.
What we
don't do is pay enough taxes to pay the healthcare system to take care of people with a highly infectious virus especially when it's now unnecessary due to a highly effective vaccine.