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[+] -52 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

It is like Obamacare. You have a person who smokes, gets drunk, eats a lot of sugar, don't exercise, you pay for their bill through hiked premiums, and overutilization. Hopefully, that sinks in.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In the countries where healthcare has existed (and worked) for decades, there are additional taxes to alcohol, sugar, tobacco, petrol to cover for this.

    And also yeah, and I have no problem whatsoever knowing that a small part of my salary goes towards saving the life of people who wouldn't be able to afford private healthcare. That's called empathy - and I wish that'd sink in as well.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    isn't that the reverse argument? Typically only <20% of people take the healthcare system for granted whilst everyone else pays their dues. Here, it's everyone pays their electricity bills but 1 absolute behemoth of a customer hordes the resources, and instead of being cut off or denied service as would be typical in other services, they pay hand over fist to get first dibs on all resources, whilst passing off the cost to everyone else

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