Plus smokers are paying very high cigarette taxes that are used for other goverment functions, so now they get penalized by both the goverment and their private insurer.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Good. You don't want to pay the taxes?....or the extra health-insurance premiums?...Don't make the CHOICE of doing the unhealthy activity. Nobody's forcing anybody to do it.
I wonder how legal marijuana will factor in to Obamacare. "Do I smoke? Well yes Doc I smoke but only pot on a recreational basis..."
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
LadyJazzer wrote: So, you would support higher insurance costs for militia wackos that run through the bushes with loaded weapons playing big-bad-soldier?
Or, KKK wackos playing with gas-cans full of gasoline?
(I do so love it when he goes off into the weeds....) :rofllol
You didn't answer the question. So you are fine with higher premiums and taxes on activities that you don't agree with only?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.