Delicate choice of words.
Why?
The argument is, more recreational drug use, more need for medical treatment, at the People's expense.
The counter-argument is, the more recreational drug use, the more premature deaths. And such death cuts much of the medical expenses for a citizen, as the last few years of life for seniors may incur more medical expense than all of the rest of the life combined.
I vehemently agree that we've gone off our charter with this government intervention:
- Social Security
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Obamacare
- etc
BUT !!!
Generally U.S. citizens like a $bargain. They love to pay wholesale price for retail purchase.
Buying in bulk enables that to happen.
Western European nations have proved, not pretended, they have DEMONSTRATED that they can produce superior healthcare outcomes, providing longer patient lifespans, at lower per patient cost than that available in the U.S. either before Obamacare, or during.
But some of such European healthcare is single-payer. And that alone is so deeply offensive to Republicans that they prefer to indulge their fraudulent ideology, at the expense figuratively and literally, of those that elected them.