When people buy cigarettes here they swipe their driver's license to verify its valid. Seems easy to keep a database of such purchases.
That is a horrible idea.
When people buy cigarettes here they swipe their driver's license to verify its valid. Seems easy to keep a database of such purchases.
Who 'deserves it'?
What about those who had to grow up and work around those who smoke cigarettes, and who subsequently gets cancer? Is it their fault because they couldn't afford to move away because their parents couldn't afford an education for them because they were always spending their money on cigarettes?
In an attempt to be the first elected Mormon Super Jew,
I'm sorry, we didn't feel a warning label was necessary. You were informed of this fact in 8th grade health class.I did not realize that big mac contained a warning on them about causing cancer or heart disease.
When people buy cigarettes here they swipe their driver's license to verify its valid. Seems easy to keep a database of such purchases.
I'm sorry, we didn't feel a warning label was necessary. You were informed of this fact in 8th grade health class.
My brother just bought a couple packs of cigarettes when I was with him the other day. They weren't for him - they were for a guy whose farm we were headed to. The guy asked him to pick them up on our way.
Oh, well if we did something in the past we should definitely keep doing it now. I'm going to go grab a bull to sacrifice to Zeus.
I find it interesting liberals are arguing for less government intrusion into our health while simultaneously saying the government should control our healthcare.
Except eating hamburgers is not a problem in and of itself. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
So I guess people would have to purchase their own cigarettes. The disadvantage of this would be what exactly.
I find it interesting liberals are arguing for less government intrusion into our health while simultaneously saying the government should control our healthcare.
That study doesn't say that eating hamburgers isn't unhealthy, it says that weight gain or loss is based on calories more than say nutrition. That being said, there are plenty of skinny people that eat like crap (aka: lots of fast food) that have heart disease or high blood pressure at a young age. In order to come to the conclusion you did, eating hamburgers (or more generally fast food) isn't bad for your health all things being equal, you'd need a study that controlled for that. The "Twinkie" study doesn't do that.
Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.
It is not hard to come up with a list of how we expect people to behave.
No.
It also says
So by eating like crap he imagined to improve his cholesterol as well.
So can you come up with a list of criteria that will accurately and prospectively predict (PPV >0.9999 and NPV >0.9999) who 'deserves' treatment and who doesn't? I chose the values above because 1) we're talking about applying this to a population of over 300 million people, and 2) even though it is much worse to deny treatment to someone who deserves it, than it is to treat someone who doesn't, I hypothesise that many more people deserve treatment than don't, which is why they're the same precision.
Oh, and also, these criteria should be applicable in the long-term (i.e. at least 10-20 years) and should be difficult to 'game' or exploit.
1.) Graduate high school
2.) No children out of wedlock
3.) No drug use or committing violent crimes or theft.
I'm sorry, we didn't feel a warning label was necessary. You were informed of this fact in 8th grade health class.
My brother just bought a couple packs of cigarettes when I was with him the other day. They weren't for him - they were for a guy whose farm we were headed to. The guy asked him to pick them up on our way.
I guess reading comprehension isn't something that everyone learns.
It is not hard to come up with a list of how we expect people to behave.
It also says
So by eating like crap he imagined to improve his cholesterol as well.
How would you like it if we came up with a list of how we expect you to behave except you hated everything on the list?
That is because they think people should be able to do whatever they want and then get bailed out by the government.
We do the same for businesses and banks. Seems only fair.
Who would provide that UHC?
The leftist most states, such as Massachusetts where Romney was governor.
Except eating hamburgers is not a problem in and of itself. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
So I guess people would have to purchase their own cigarettes. The disadvantage of this would be what exactly.