In Health Care...what if 'self inflicted' diseases weren't covered? And 'real' diseases were fully covered?
Poppet! Said: 1 there was discussion on this very topic, with smokers having to pay a "surcharge", but I'm not sure what happened to it.
2 sounds to me like a policy that lawyers would absolutely LOVE.
3 I think I remember that, too, Poppet. My company will start imposing a premium surcharge on smokers next fiscal year. The board wanted to make it immediate, but decided to give employees a year to quit.Is it really a self-inflicted disease?
I started smoking when I was 17. I didn't quit until I was 30, and it was very difficult. The company that makes the brand of cigarettes I smoked is still in business and is doing quite well.
They have to bear some of the responsibility. States have been trying to sue them to recoup Medicaid costs.My father died of lung cancer. I would love to have him back and put a tobacco executive in his place.
When I smoked I never imagined I would get sick from it and I did not. All the conditions & vices you listed probably will be considered as addictions. When I volunteered with Hospice I met people with lung cancer that had not smoked in their lives and never had anyone at home smoking.
If we are to punish people for having lung cancer we will have to be able to determine what caused it. Was it cigarettes? Was it pollution?
Was it some carcinogenics buried in the ground where they lived? Exposure at work? In 1976 a coworker's wife died of lung cancer.
She was 40 years old, never smoked but they always lived in the town of Linden, NJ where the Exxon refinery was. Are they the culprits? Who can prove that?
All her Italian relatives lived in the same block and no one else got lung cancer. Are we pre-disposed to get it? The Health Care programs are being implemented for all the Americans to have health coverage unconditionally.
No if's and but's. I always worried when my son lost his job. I insisted that he, while unemployed, would keep his COBRA ($400 a month).
Ultimately we found a Blue Cross Blue SHield for $157/month so if something happens he will not be totally in debt for the rest of his life. I spend many years on sucky jobs because of great health benefits. We are on Medicare now and as we age I believe it is unfair that we do not have dental, vision and hearing aid coverage.
These three things are a major problem for us older folks. Just as we pay for supplemental insurance we should be able to have access to coverage for them. In reality... they should just have expanded...Medicare for everybody.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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