>>>We are in rare agreement. You can't legislate self-interest if the behavior doesn't endanger others.
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>It damages the insurance company shareholders whose dividends could be billions more if not for self-inflicted illnesses, and the taxpayers who can no longer afford a Ponzi scheme to care for healthy people after age 65 let along the willfully sick.
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>Hi Mike. ;-) Pleased to report I coughed all the way home at the weekend. Thanks, Stuart. ;-)
The shareholders have made the choice to invest in an insurance company and assume the risks of that investment.
As to the taxpayers, I agree, because we are forced to pay for other's healthcare we should limit expensive (in health cost terms) lifestyles. Thus we should start requiring everyone to smoke and gorge themselves. ;)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html?_r=3&Bring on the Twinkies!
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/12/news/companies/twinkies-buyer/index.html?iid=HP_River
Wine is sunlight, held together by water - Galileo Galilei
Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil - Louis Pasteur
Water separates the people of the world; wine unites them - anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world - Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance - Benjamin Franklin
