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Originally Posted by sedated
[Devil's advocate] I don't think health insurance premiums are the main area of concern, they would want the same treatment for those that are willingly "unhealthy". Ie, no cancer treatment for smokers, since they made that choice. No treatment for heart disease for anyone who has a certain body fat percentage, since they should have made healthier choices. Etc.
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A fair point.
This situation is probably most comparable to things like liver transplants for alcoholics.
But the point I was making is that people DO already face incentives/disincentives/financial punishments for choices that burden the system.
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Originally Posted by Marcellus
You guys are missing the point, I am directly referring to the impact on overall healthcare cost.
Also most hospitals write off millions of $ in heath care given to people who cant or won't pay.
So the "cost" in all of this from unhealthy people has always been there, covid is not different in that aspect. I think its disingenuous to be complaining about he $ aspect of it when it comes to healthcare and costing people $.
Also it seems odd one day we are told hospitals are losing their asses due to covid and then we see complaining about the cost of taking care of covid patients being exorbitant.
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Why is that odd?
It does hammer hospitals financially. Not only does it take up huge amounts of bed and manpower resources, it drastically increases the amount of write-offs the hospital has to do.
I see your distinction, though.