Let's balance the desires of the right and left. Let's have healthcare for all citizens. But you pay a premium based on your health. Your premium is based on the results of your yearly physical. Don't take your physical? Cannot go to a hospital.
I changed career direction a couple of years ago and now work in healthcare. It's completely changed my view. Here are the three "Ah-Ha" things that I've learned:
Americans are the most irresponsible people on the planet about our health.
Americans drink, smoke, eat garbage and sit on their a$$. When they get sick they want a cure from a pill or someone else to pay for it. Fully 80% of the illnesses I see are preventable.
The US healthcare system is a basket case and the most expensive in the world. Problem is that Americans still see it as the best in the world.
With the M. O'bamer menu, many of the kids had never seen the vegetables that were presented to them. Gives you a good idea of the health habits that kids are taught at home.
Let's balance the desires of the right and left. Let's have healthcare for all citizens. But you pay a premium based on your health. Your premium is based on the results of your yearly physical. Don't take your physical? Cannot go to a hospital. Sorry, you are not participating. Wanna smoke? No problem. Be 50 lbs overweight? Not an issue. Eat the garbage called processed foods and the poison called fast food? Knock yourselves out. You are free to do what you like. You can live however you like. But it will send your premium up, it will cost you. Base everyone's premium on how you choose to live. That way, those of you who don't care about your health can pay for the choices you make.
So what do you think? Make sense?
You're attempting to use a collective method to encourage personal responsibility, which is like trying to improve privacy by spying on everyone who might attempt to invade that privacy. Setting aside the questionable ability of the entirety of the U.S. to agree on a set of health standards, you are also trying to put people into an "Idiot's Safety Box" which only engenders a lack of personal responsibility. If a doctor pointing at a blood pressure chart and telling the 400 lb man "YOU. WILL. DIE. If you don't change your diet!" won't encourage him, why on earth would some minor fee change it?
Furthermore, you're also setting up a "pay to be lazy, fat, or drunk" system wherein your wealth literally makes you able to ignore heath recommendations. You want to see a class war, wait and see how long it takes for all the poor to become jealous that the upper echelons can eat the costs associated with having a bunch of donuts or some 5 Guys.
I changed career direction a couple of years ago and now work in healthcare. It's completely changed my view. Here are the three "Ah-Ha" things that I've learned:
Americans are the most irresponsible people on the planet about our health.
Americans drink, smoke, eat garbage and sit on their a$$. When they get sick they want a cure from a pill or someone else to pay for it. Fully 80% of the illnesses I see are preventable.
The US healthcare system is a basket case and the most expensive in the world. Problem is that Americans still see it as the best in the world.
With the M. O'bamer menu, many of the kids had never seen the vegetables that were presented to them. Gives you a good idea of the health habits that kids are taught at home.
Let's balance the desires of the right and left. Let's have healthcare for all citizens. But you pay a premium based on your health. Your premium is based on the results of your yearly physical. Don't take your physical? Cannot go to a hospital. Sorry, you are not participating. Wanna smoke? No problem. Be 50 lbs overweight? Not an issue. Eat the garbage called processed foods and the poison called fast food? Knock yourselves out. You are free to do what you like. You can live however you like. But it will send your premium up, it will cost you. Base everyone's premium on how you choose to live. That way, those of you who don't care about your health can pay for the choices you make.
So what do you think? Make sense?
Now that schools will see a decrease in funding from fund-raising, I'm sure our taxes will make up the difference.... Think about the children...