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Originally Posted by davidra
In fact, that's exactly why we have these issues such as obesity and smoking as major costs to society....because politicians and insurance companies and individuals like you, and even more unfortunately many doctors lack the insight to see that prevention is a major role for the health care system.
Public health IS the health care system...Unfortunately, our medical socialization has been one of illness care, not prevention....when clearly putting resources into prevention is the way to decrease illness care.
But for some reason some yahoos seem to think that the libertarian message for harmful behaviors is no business of the society we live in.
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OK Gestapo, you stepped in one here. Correct me if I am wrong (I know you will, but if I'm right you will probably just ignore this post) You are saying it is Society's Business to make sure we do not behave in a harmful way. Do I understand you to say we should Heavily tax or some how stop someone who smokes because they are harming society? We should somehow control what they eat because their obesity is a burden to society. We should control who or how they have sex because AIDS could put a burden on our healthcare dollars. Is that what you are saying?
Education alone won't work. We have warning labels on cigarette packs, but new people light up every day. I know that a Big Mac is not healthy, but I still occasionally eat one. So, I guess you are not counting on just education, you believe we should actually control peoples behavior?