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Should People Who Cause Their Own Illnesses Pay for Their Own Health Care?

JohnCGoodman
Last updated: 2012/11/30 at 7:03 AM
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David Friedmanweighs in:

David Friedmanweighs in:

I recently came across a news story about a British legislator who proposed that patients suffering from life style illnesses, medical problems mainly due to behavioral choices such as being overweight, ought to have to pay for their own medicines rather than having them provided for free by the National Health Service. It is a proposal that I expect will provoke strong responses both against and for…

[I]t is not clear just how the logic of endogenous disability can be dealt with in a governmental system such as the National Health Service. There is a serious problem of lack of bright lines. Many sufferers from type 2 diabetes, an example mentioned in the news story, may have it because they choose to be greatly overweight, but presumably not all. Similarly in other cases.

Okay, commenters. What do you think?

  

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