On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Then if your kid ends up costing tax payers 1 million in health care costs, > it should be the parent's right to pay the bill. > > Just as with smoking, or drinking, or taking cocaine. > > If health suffers as a result of your own actions, it doesn't just affect > the individual, it affects society in general. > > How do you match that reality to the "right to be fat" ? > > And I believe in universal health care. I don't believe any person should > die because they cannot afford to pay for the care that would save their > lives or improve their quality of life. I think lives lost that way are a > tragedy and an indictment on that particular society and its structures. >
I don't get what you are saying here.....do you want people to be responsible for hteir health, and any charges associated with it, or don't you? If a person without a dime to their name panhandles for just enough to support his alcoholism, then gets cirrhosis....do you want us paying for his liver transplant or not...lest he serve as an "indictment" on our society and it's structures? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345273 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
