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Originally Posted by Damian_Maxcash
One thing that you get with a National system is better health education. Its a great way to reduce the costs.
Smoking and obecity would drop.
The gang shootings are something else altogether.
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Smoking and obesity actually reduce costs on the medical system. People die much sooner, and quicker from these illnesses. The longer someone lives beyond retirement, and no longer pays into the system, it increases the financial burden on the medical system. The government will actually have incentive to make sure you
arent healthy, and die as quickly as possible beyond retirement age. Look at social security and how they like to bump up the age at which you can receive benefits every once in a while.
Not saying our current system isnt a ridiculous mess, so much so that its almost impossible to make any sense of it, but given the US governments track record, I wouldn't trust it to provide UHC.