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The more we have to pay for each other's healthcare (insurance costs going up, ACA subsidies, maybe a future "single payer" situation), the more other people's
by sp332 2y ago
The more we have to pay for each other's healthcare (insurance costs going up, ACA subsidies, maybe a future "single payer" situation), the more other people's health decisions are going to be our business.
- fragmede 2y agoOh! so we should be supporting fentanyl killing people because it makes our healthcare costs go down because now they're dead NEETs instead of a drain on society? how modest.
- beaeglebeachedd 2y agoBy the societal benefit model, yes. By the more libertarian model yes because of bodily autonomy. Either way yes. Trying to protect them from themselves is worse from virtually any angle and especially the humanitarian one.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoTechnically, that is only if fentanyl is disproportionately killing young people who are already addicted due to some other cause and not likely to be economically productive again.