What about epileptics? Or mentally retarded? Or diabetics?
Should medically judged fat people pay higher medical costs?
The rationale is to provide an incentive to change unhealthy lifestyle choices.
In addition to Crue Cab's list of medical conditions, how about professional race car drivers? Professional wrestlers? Boxers? Olympic skiers? Bunge jumpers? Parachutists? Bad drivers? Alcoholics? People who drive motor cycles? People who get X-number of speeding tickets? Traffic accidents?
Some of those aren't preventable.....
How can you even begin to compare those??? Tells us a lot about your intelligence..
No. The rationale is to make people pay more because they are higher risks....so you and I won't have to subsidize them.
Some of those aren't preventable.....
How can you even begin to compare those??? Tells us a lot about your intelligence..
Epilepsy can be brought on by drugs, alcohol, inhalants, head injury.
Diabetes can be brought on by poor diet.
Mental retardation, can be caused by head injury.
Many head injuries are preventable or happen from ill advised activities.
Tell me something about YOUR intelligence.
No. The rationale is to make people pay more because they are higher risks....so you and I won't have to subsidize them.
yeah, people should lose weight if they want to. i did, and i started exercising, too. however, i'm just not that keen on going down that road any more than we already have. health care is already ridiculously expensive, and let's be honest here : even if they did charge the overweight more, they won't charge the rest of us less. they'll say they will, and maybe even claim that the costs are just going up so fast that us paying what we're paying already is the discount, but in the end, they're just going to pocket the money.
how do i know this? a year or two ago, my employer sent us a letter offering a pretty significant percent discount for being a nonsmoker. well, i am a nonsmoker, so i was totally relieved. i sign the sheet, get my first paycheck of the fiscal year, and guess what? my rate still went up. i'm thinking there's an error or something, so i ask around. turns out that they just jacked the premiums WAY up on the smokers. my discount was that my insurance went up by the same percentage that it would have anyway or maybe a percent or two less. woohoo, discount!
that's what will happen. count me as a no vote.
Premiums will continue to increase more rapidly than the rate of inflation until and unless we get real reform of the health care system.
Had you not gotten a non smoker discount, your premiums would doubtless have gone up even more than they did.
as i said in the post. they screwed the poor smokers right to the wall. it was insane. glad i quit, and thank you Allen Carr.
Some of those aren't preventable.....
How can you even begin to compare those??? Tells us a lot about your intelligence..
Some of those aren't preventable.....
How can you even begin to compare those??? Tells us a lot about your intelligence..
Did they only go after the smokers, or did they go after everyone with a risky lifestyle and/or habit?
If that's the case, then people born with, or who develop, medical conditions that they can't change should pay more also.
First of all...no one is "judged" obese. A medical professional makes a diagnosis that a person is obese. Which medical treatments would you consider are directly related to "obesity"?
Is obesity a contributing factor or a direct cause???
Which illnesses and diseases would you "judge" as needing to be charged a higher rate to fat people?