Why should people be allowed to smoke all their lives, get cancer, and get medicare to pay for treatment?
After they worked so hard to get that cancer for all those years of poisioning themselves, why should their friends and nehibors have to pay to fight the cancer?
Politics - 23 Answers
Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
1 :
See, that's the problem with the Democrats' proposal for socialized medicine. We end up forced to pay for the bad decisions of others, even if we do our very best to keep healthy. In addition, they will use it to force us to pay for medical care for millions of foreign law-breakers in our country. I really think that folks who smoke and foreign criminals should be ineligible to receive MY MONEY for their intentional choices.
2 :
Freedom of choice;deal with it.
3 :
Plenty of nonsmokers get cancer, are you going to leave them for dead also.
4 :
Because it is the duty of us as humans to help others in need, no matter if they have self-inflicted harm.
5 :
Smokers pay taxes too. They also pay higher taxes to medicare than people who don't smoke.
6 :
it's one of democracy weaknesses all equal - no matter if you are responsible for your damage
7 :
same reason fat people can get medicare or ugly people or whatever quit hating on the smokers pick on the alcoholics for awhile, will ya
8 :
because they pay taxes, also I think you should do some more studying about healthcare in general before you aska question like that. if we live in a free country you shouldn't be allowed to stop them
9 :
See, that's interesting, because if I had it my way, there would be no more smoking in this country- but conservatives are always talking about rights, so, if you eat your cake...
10 :
Nice compassion for your fellow citizens....very patriotic.....very compelling.....Oh well....I'm sure you're at least wearing your flag lapel pin.....
11 :
I concur with the Texan, freedom of choice, deal with it!!!! I pay for my poisen, I contribute taxes towards health care with each pack I purchase!!!
12 :
for the same reason some idiot goes to a war zone, gets shot, & expects a medal( & health care); for the same reason a woman who's had a glass of wine, trips on her way to the bathroom & expects health care; for the same reason a kid with an ipod doesn't hear the traffic & gets hit by a car & expects health care etc.etc.etc.
13 :
Same reason why people who eat junk all of their lives, are poor, drive fast, experience stress, work industrial jobs, and have family histories of illnesses get health care. Everybody is risky is some way or another. It's pretty arrogant to think you have the right to decide which risk is more deserving than another. There's no such thing as health care for only the perfect. There'd be no takers.
14 :
You could say the same about someone who crashes their car because they were speeding or another person who ate crap and got weight related illnesses... It's just society and smoking being something bad is only a fairly recent development... Plus think how much tax cigarettes bring in!
15 :
"Be allowed to smoke"? This is America. We are allowed to make choices as adults. Even if they are bad or foolish choices. Like abortion. Or buying tequila. Or an extra-large order of deep-fried potatoes. We are also "allowed" to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to educate illegal aliens and provide emergency health care for them.
16 :
Should we have to pay for people on welfare that take drugs? Why don't they have to take a drug test before getting benefits? Should we have to pay for people that just pump out babies to stay on welfare? Should we have to pay for medical coverage because people ate too much food and are overweight? I don't like paying for deadbeats but I have to. It is all part of the system. You have to take the bad with the good.
17 :
Why should people who eat junk food and have a heart attack get medicare? Why should people who don't exercise get medicare for cardiovascular disease? Why should sluts who get AIDS get medicare? Why should people who speed and crash get medicare to fix their broken bones and rehabilitate? NEED I SAY MORE??
18 :
True. Same for all the silly cows who go to tanning parlours and then wonder why they get skin cancer. And the people who are rude and insensitive to other people and then wonder why they end up in casualty with their mouth all battered to bits and their eyes black and puffy. Why shouldn't they be left to mend themselves when they get smacked in the mouth instead of expecting the decent people to pay ?
19 :
Why are we forced to pay for infertility treatments? for disabilities? for drug addiction? for life sentences in prison? for college for those less fortunate? for housing for the poor? for corporations to move people overseas? What about people with lung cancer that didn't smoke? The questions could go on and on. I suggest you move on and focus on your life. We all have faults, perhaps you could work on your own issues instead.
20 :
Don't stop there about all the obese people who end up with diabetes, strokes. Oh and the drug abusers loss of memory. Then you have young people who buy expensive cars and take vacations, they fail to buy health ins. Then again how about people who do not save for retirement. We can point fingers and complain about others but this is America and personal freedoms are guaranteed.
21 :
You're absolutely right, only the 'good' poor should have Medicare. Now please define the 'good' poor. And that's irony by the way.
22 :
its going to be the same wene you get to that age see if smoking stops being number one cause of cancer what is going to replace it ? cell phones and brain cancer so cancel your cell phone because my children should not pay for your stupid mistake
23 :
hope this website below help you, 50 articles about cancer: http://cancercom.co.cc
Read more discussions :