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Originally Posted by Aquila
So do you think insurance companies should raise the rates on a man who choose to eat a Big Mac during his lunch break over a Mc Salad? Or what if he drinks soda (big reason for obesity in the US) over water? Why must a free man who is no danger to anyone be beholden or enslaved to any entity?
Where is this CONTROL spirit coming from??? You see it on the right... give private entities power to crush the one who doesn't behave like we think he should. On the left... give the government power to crush the one who doesn't behave like we think he should.
What about... just allowing individual freedom without penalty? What about supporting laws that ensure that free men are treated equally?
A smoker is a free man, a fellow American. A non-smoker is a free man, a fellow American. If ABC Corp. doesn't want them smoking on corporate property... so be it. But to control them on their own time and in their own homes is tyranny. Yes, there are more serious instances of tyranny down through history. But tyranny is tyranny.
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Evidently, you're not in the health care industry earning a living. Evidently, you don't see the aspect of my rates being raised and healthcare level remaining the same, to pay in part for those who choose to damage themselves. I don't smoke. Never have and certainly don't intend on changing that.
We can get so caught up in freedom, freedom, freedom to the point we become selfish in the process. So, yes, raise the rates on those who choose to damage their bodies. I could benefit from it since I don't smoke myself, therefore allowing me to pay for my children's health care issues that are far more pressing than mine. I've had my fair share of seeing how health care is so one-sided but I'm tired of being the victim of other people's downright selfishness in having the choice to what they feel. I'm already a victim of the government needlessly taking tax dollars to pay for the single mother raising 4, 5, or 6 kids without a father in the picture. Or, if there is a father in the picture, he's driving a 50k dollar Escalade or Benz while I'm sitting back trying to pay for my daughter's health issues that are far more pressing than a welfare child whose mom or shack-up boyfriend take their mutual offspring to the doctor for a simple runny nose...
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