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Squall28 posted...

How would you feel if there was a biometric tax credit? Like if you get good health numbers, you pay less taxes (since we'll probably have to pay more if we get universal healthcare). I think we'll be better off with more regulations on costs. I don't know how you are going to "add more competition." It seems like a pretty hard market to get into....especially insurance.

Also if they have more regulation on costs, maybe they'll probably get more incentives to find ways to cut down their own individual costs instead of just passing that stuff to customers.

I would say that it'd almost be a requirement to have such a thing if the taxpayers were going to foot the bill. Because it wouldn't be fair for someone who exercises to pay more or as much as someone who doesn't give a fuck about their health despite having the means to do so.

Like, smokers contribute something like 10% of our yearly healthcare expenditures. That's a huge fucking number for something as disgusting and worthless as smoking. So why the fuck should we have to go to work in order to pay for that?

But at the same time, the amount of government reach involved in tracking that data is so massive that it worries me about a dystopian future where government power is abused by evil people (monopolies, fascists, communists, etc).

The more ideal scenario would be one where technology advances so much that we can treat most illnesses with machines in the comfort of our own homes.
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