Currently, The Two Biggest Points On Healthcare

[ObamacareForever]

What about risks one chooses to take, like riding motorcycles, being fat, smoking etc?

Smokers are already charged hired premiums to reflect their additional risk.
Personally, I support some price discrimination based on BMI.
I don't know enough the additional risk riding motorcycles brings adds to judge at the moment.

 

[Barbella]

You don't have a choice in what ailments for which you are at risk. You should not have option to not pay for those risks.

Sure you do. Smoking, excessive drinking and eating, being a couch potato weighing 400 lbs... your choice. No one else's.

Why should the rest of humanity bail you out of your self-inflicted misery?

 

[Deleted member 21794]

Smokers are already charged hired premiums to reflect their additional risk.
Personally, I support some price discrimination based on BMI.
I don't know enough the additional risk riding motorcycles brings adds to judge at the moment.

I think it depends where you get your policy. The last time I had insurance as an employee, there was no smoker and non-smoker rates. That was a while ago, maybe things have changed.

With regards to riding motorcycles, sky diving etc, I think we should have people pay for all risks they take. I don't have hard data that says it will save tons of money. But many people in the medical field have a nickname for motorcycle riders: organ donors.

 

[PhilFish]

Whew. For a minute I thought you had been kidnapped.

Meaning I would support universal healthcare, or Medicare for all but given whom were speaking to who are unwilling to pay for it, it'll never work.

 

[PhilFish]

A majority of people either:
1.)aren't convinced that is waste/fraud/abuse.
and/or
2.) don't care about waste/fraud/abuse

or could give a shit about it because it's not affecting them because we keep adding more debt to the debt