re: A great article about why America blows...

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and progressive want a system to protect them and enable them to make even more shitty choices

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Yep. It is dumb as hell. When you take away the incentives to avoid a certain action, you get stuck with morons who act like morons.

Plus, if you think it is bad now, prepare yourself if they ever do go to single payer. It will hit the fan.

You want to drive down healthcare costs, don't remove the burdens that appear when you are unhealthy. Those choices should have consequences.

And don't respond with, "oh, but what about trauma and illnesses from birth, blah, blah, blah."

The leading causes if death in the US are self-inflicted.

Heart disease - 600,000/yr
Cancer (lung is 4x higher than the next highest) - 575,000/yr
Cerebrovascular disease - 129,000/yr
Chronic lower respiratory diseases - 138,000/yr
Unintentional trauma - 120,000
Diabetes - 69,000/yr

And that is deaths. The number people living with those diseases and requiring constant treatment and expense is insane.