A Few Thoughts on Health Care-Nationwide Child Coverage

[shane2020]

I think this is a good starting point- it seems reasonable to me that absolutely everyone would be for universal coverage for children. I mean honestly, does ANYONE want to be the politician that looks children in the eye and says "I'm sorry, your parents were not resposible enough to pay for health care for you. Too bad!" I don't deeply grasp what

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[trishalynn]

[shane2020]

ROAR!

[trishalynn]

[shane2020]

I thought this over some more, and I guess it depends. If you want to spend a couple dozen to a couple hundred bucks setting up a few appointments with a nutritionist to go over what you eat, some kind of physical trainer to set up a weekly/daily workout routine, and maybe get some nicotine patches and plans and other tools to quit smoking, then I don't mind collectively chipping in for that. ASSUMING YOU actually put that advice to work and follow through, that is. From society's point of view, this is actually a good investment beacuse if that kind of care works and you get back to your ideal weight and quit smoking, you will have a longer, happier, more productive, and even pragmatically, a more tax-revenue producing and less costly life. So that's win win

[trishalynn]

[shane2020]

All the more reason we need more Preventative maintainence collectively as a society, because an ounce of prevention is worth a TON of cure, and all the more reason to not ACTIVELY rush headlong past the point of no return.

I don't know if I buy the whole psyche thing as an excuse to delay or not. Probably not, but that's under your control.