[quote=MANmom]I totally agree…when they ask me to pay for someone else’s healthcare, I want to be able to monitor what they eat, drink and smoke. I’m not paying for someone else’s gluttony. I also want to make sure they spend at least 30 minutes a day excersizing, don’t drive motorcycles…the list goes on and on. Health care is not a right, it is a personal responsibility.[/quote]
That’s the problem. Because healthcare is so expensive now, it prevents people from preventative care. So it ends up costing us more in the long run anyway (via higher premiums).
The idea is that if we have less un-insured, more people will be seeking healthcare so that problems can be caught and treated early – before they are terminal and/or exponentially more expensive to treat.
