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Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
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RE: Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
(January 26, 2017 at 12:27 am)Cato Wrote:
(January 25, 2017 at 9:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well, it was your analogy.  People who get screened for diabetes can be treated with diet/exercise and medication.  People who show up in a diabetic coma at an ER are in much deeper shit.  Or worse, if they have gangrene they can have something amputated but the costs in an ER are astonishingly high and if they don't have insurance and have to rely on Medicare guess who pays for that in the long run?  Right.  We do.

I see that Tibs already nailed the answer.


Now we're talking. Diabetes. I make a clear distinction between Type I or Type II. The people that suffer from Type I can never be blamed for their condition and are among those with pre-existing conditions that I addressed earlier. Type II is an entirely different circumstance. Why am I obligated to pay for medication or a doctor's visit for those that don't diet/exercise?

Of course we're now obfuscating the original argument that revocation of insurance = death.

Many type 2 are elderly, and it's more akin to other organ failure that happens as we age.

And anyway, if we should treat people with drug and alcohol addictions with humane kindness, the same goes for everyone. People don't enjoy being overweight and ill, it's practically pushed on them from all sides nowadays.

Education and preventative care for every person would also reduce things like our obesity epidemic, not to mention more regulations on the companies making the monstrous shit that causes it in the first place. Not everything boils down to individual "choice".

Seems like we are destined for those 3 things to be made weaker soon, just when we need them to improve.
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RE: Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually - by Aroura - January 26, 2017 at 12:36 am

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