60 million Americans “abuse alcohol”. Doctors wrote 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants during 2010. Unintentional drug overdose death in the US every 19 minutes. “11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year”

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[–]Objecting_Sphere 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't buy the void of responsibility argument. If I get cancer, was that my responsibility? Should I have tried harder to not get cancer? I do think there needs to be some system that saves people when they are faced with a medical problem they can't pay for. It's just that insurance should be scaled back to deal only with extreme events, and not be the primary way we pay for healthcare.

[–]NuclearBadger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or the company that doesn't care about what goes into their product. It's not guaranteed to be the person getting cancer that it's their fault.

If you become ill by self infliction then 100% you should get a bill regardless of insurance.

Smoke for 50 years and get lung cancer? nope.

Fall over and smash your face in at 18 because you got blind drunk? nope.

A better system is just that you get treatment and get a bill that you have to pay before you die. Anyone that has less debt to the system gets higher priority for help.

I pay 4 figures a month to tax and national insurance and some fat useless cunt on benefits gets to skip infront of me because they are higher risk.

That is just disgusting.