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Mack BT's avatar

Same goes for Big Gulps, which is why liberals- when trying to squash soda consumption- should have just said ‘drink however much sugary crap you want, we are just going to take a face scan of all of you and your diabetes treatment will NOT be covered!’

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DiazRockCrawlr's avatar

This is my main beef about beefy people - overburdening the healthcare and health insurance industries ends up costing us healthy un-beefy ones, both in terms of cost and access to appointments. Grrrrr

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Is the healthcare system overburdened though? Was it not actually designed for this purpose? It could be said that there is profitability in keeping people sick and providing them with "band-aids" for it, without curing it. They say that a hospital is at optimum functioning at 80% capacity.

When I was in the hospital, for every ailment there was a pharmaceutical answer. Any discomfort, you were offered pain pills, you are backed up, here is some pills and substances to help you go. Never an indicator that maybe the problem was...laying down provides absolutely little to no "leverage" to get the inside out.

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