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Natural consequence of socialized medicine. If I’m paying for your healthcare then I (and by extension the state) get a say in basically every aspect of your li
by subjectsigma 5mo ago
Natural consequence of socialized medicine. If I’m paying for your healthcare then I (and by extension the state) get a say in basically every aspect of your life.
Time to ban alcohol, marijuana, Tylenol, fatty foods, sugar, candles, campfires, fireworks, food coloring, bicycles, playgrounds, cars, cell phones, and anything else that might be harmful
- mytailorisrich 5mo agoIn the UK tobacco is heavily taxed and those taxes bring in more money than the cost on the healthcare service.
- falcor84 5mo agoInteresting - do you have a link about the financial accounting around this?
- nephihaha 5mo agoI do not have the specific info/ref to hand, but at one point some years ago, smoking brought in something of the order of nine times as much into the NHS as it spent on smoking related illnesses. I was very surprised by this.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5mo agoEven so, the NHS's goals are rightly such that greatly reducing the harm done by smoking is preferred over keeping this revenue. Unlike a tobacco company that would not factor harms external to the organisation into the profit and loss calculation.
- mytailorisrich 5mo agoIf you google it, revenue is at £8 billion (Office for Budget Responsibility) and in decline, and NHS spending is at £2.6 billion in England, so the bulk of it (NHS England).
- Findecanor 5mo agoYou can not put a price on human suffering.
- theturtle 5mo ago[dead]
- xyzal 5mo agoEnjoy setting up a GoFundMe if you ever get cancer.
- 1828399393 5mo agoLet us look at the cancer survival rates in the US vs countries with socialized medicine. I know for a fact when the business elite of my Euro country gets cancer they fly to NY. They don't pay taxes either tho so I guess it works for them.
- AlexandrB 5mo agoThe other natural consequence of socialized medicine is rationing. In Canada the waiting time for treatment is often months or years[1]. That GoFundMe might give you a higher survival rate. [1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/more-than-23000-canadians-died-on-medical-wait-lists-in-the-past-year-new-report-finds/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/more-than-23000-canadi...
- malcolmgreaves 5mo agoWait until you see how many people die from waiting for medical care they care afford in the US!
- foobiekr 5mo agoTylenol is much less dangerous than, say, Advil. It’s only issue is one of overdose which is common to all drugs.
- subjectsigma 5mo agoI think you might be missing the point I was trying to make
- GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago> Natural consequence of socialized medicine. improved health outcomes?
- nephihaha 5mo agoDon't worry they're working on banning most of those. The UK has a sugar tax and will ban fires (God forbid people are energy independent!) You could throw in skate boards, pornography, slate roofs, criticising government policy and the policy, gluten, and chewing gum.