Originally Posted by
anaconda
Government interference in health care means your healthcare costs are higher.
The public still fails to understand the conceptual difference between the delivery of health care services and health insurance. All else being equal, a fit lean person who consumed animal products raised on 100% on grass would be stupid to join a health insurance pool with a fat pre-diabetic who dined on sugar and grain-fed factory farmed animals. Competition should make medical services cheap, and equally cheap, across consumers. The latter group will inevitably choose to spend more on health services because of poorer health.
Plus now, under Obamacare, insurance is not even allowed to offer discount for healthy lifestyle beyond being a non-smoker. Healthy lifestyles pay higher premiums the same as unhealthy lifestyles. The law subsidizes unhealthy lifestyles. We know what happens to anything you subsidize.
"Under Obamacare, a 30-year-old male, with a BMI of 18, who works out 5-6 days a week, eats as healthy as possible, and has absolutely no health problems whatsoever, ends up paying the same amount in premiums as a 30-year-old male who is 600lbs, eats two pizzas and drinks two 2-liter sodas daily, and has been previously told by his doctor that he needs to lose weight, or be at risk for heart disease and diabetes."
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