From my perspective I don't think that she is completely incorrect in her statement, there are a lot of people who make horrible health choices that result in costly outcomes. Some of the biggest being smoking cigarettes, drinking excessive alcohol, and obesity.
I think that it is fair to state that some people's modifiable behaviours can cost the provincial health care system a significant amount of money. No one was really arguing against that during COVID with many people arguing that the unvaccinated population were responsible for their own negative health outcomes.
The problem with the UCP is that it sort of ends at personal accountability without support, whereas if it was a personal accountability with a healthy dose of preventative health care (ie better funding for family physicians and NPs) to help support the population in question it would be much more well received in my opinion at least... #### have provincially funded personal trainers for the population being deemed at risk.
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