The problem with your outlook is you can’t follow through unless you’re a sociopath. Are you willing watch your parent/child/friend/spouse reap the consequences of their “lifestyle choices” and suffer and/or die? I have watched that happen - i guarantee you that you wouldn’t.
Last year, my wife died from a recurrence of metastatic melanoma. By your standard, that suffering was her “fault”, because she failed to use sunscreen as a teenager. If insurance was rated like general liability insurance, she would have been dropped 8 years ago when the original cancerous lesion was removed. Fuck that noise.
I would have bankrupted the entire family to fight for the 60% survival rate in a few months, and she would have suffered even more without adequate care at the end.
We have Medicare “socialism” because social security was allowing the elderly to support themselves and live longer. Many were neglected and dying in inhumane ways, or saddling families with the burden of being a full time caretaker. It’s gross that we live in a society drowning in riches, but we take a principled stance to avoid taxation for rich people, at an incalculable human cost.
Last year, my wife died from a recurrence of metastatic melanoma. By your standard, that suffering was her “fault”, because she failed to use sunscreen as a teenager. If insurance was rated like general liability insurance, she would have been dropped 8 years ago when the original cancerous lesion was removed. Fuck that noise.
I would have bankrupted the entire family to fight for the 60% survival rate in a few months, and she would have suffered even more without adequate care at the end.
We have Medicare “socialism” because social security was allowing the elderly to support themselves and live longer. Many were neglected and dying in inhumane ways, or saddling families with the burden of being a full time caretaker. It’s gross that we live in a society drowning in riches, but we take a principled stance to avoid taxation for rich people, at an incalculable human cost.