wtf both of your English skills are so goddamn good.

I would be in total support of fast food and soda taxes

A shitty diet is not infectious, it doesnt negatively affect others, only yourself. Interfering with entrepreneurial freedom is just not justifiable in these cases because people are only risking their own health by the choices they make.

The reason is pretty obvious.

There's money to be made in selling shitty food and then selling the treatments for the resulting illnesses through our garbage for-profit healthcare system.

Similarly, there's lots of money to be lost by allowing a virus to ravage the population, and we gave huge stimulus to large companies to help them weather the storm.

It kind of does though. Imagine if our morbidly obese rate went down by 70% and the astronomic amount of savings in healthcare costs. I feel like the affordable healthcare debate would disappear over night. They're a disproportionate weight on that cost no pun intended lol.

Those morbidly obese tend to die younger though. Who's causing the bigger financial burden for society? Is it the fatty fat who causes more healthcare costs, but dies at age 70, shortly after retiring - or is it the healthy guy who lives to age 95 and spends the last 12 years of his life in a nursing home? Those who live unhealthy and die young(er) cause higher healthcare costs over the span of their life, but take less money out of the pension system.


A couple of years ago, we had this discussion about exploding costs for the elderly here in Germany. One of the experts introduced a callous term which was later chosen for the "ugliest word of the year award". The term roughly translates to "'socially advantageous early demise".

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Red State Idaho that has politicized and denied virus protocols.
Wants to send their excess COVID ICU patients to WA.. big fucking surprise.
That is freedom is what they wanted right? The D states are the enemy according to the R base right?
I'm sure we will help them out.. Maybe WA shouldn't?

Why would anybody want that when the healthcare system is for profit?

The system is functioning exactly how it is intended.

Lmao.

Ze Germans notorious for these type of utilitarian statements.

If there was one country that I think would pioneer soylent green I feel Germany is easily a top 3 pick.

No, there was an outcry over this term. Also note that it was coined by the president of a medical association. He used it in the context of the radical, cost-cutting healthcare reform the government was discussing at the time, and the intention was to illustrate, in drastic words, what these plans would mean for patients/society.