Who’s bailing out poorly run banks and auto companies? Taxes raised in part from better run banks and auto companies. People who practice preventative health care, excises, and eat right will be paying for the negligent. When auto insurers charge higher rates for reckless than the cautious drivers it promotes safer driving habits. Universal medical insurance with equal access will subsidize unhealthy choices.
American’s don’t choose to be equally healthy, so why should they equally pay for their health care costs? Two-thirds of Americans are overweight, half of that number obese. Forty percent do not exercise. Twenty percent still smoke. About 18 percent don’t wear safety belts. Rates of chronic and degenerative illness and avoidable injuries rise. One estimate puts preventable medical costs at 70 percent of the total.
