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I'd have supported her paying out of pocket to use the live donor that was willing, but not to use my tax money when it's pretty fucking clear she has no intention of changing.
It's the same reason I'm largely against the Liberal's diabetes funding - ~90% of diabetics are Type 2 (I'm willing to help Type 1's out because it's not their fault) and the vast, vast majority of those are from unhealthy lifestyle even if they are genetically predisposed.
If were going to have a public health system, people should be required to take care of themselves. And no, I'm not talking about the one-off accidents from riskier activities (although I do think people should bear the cost of their own healthcare if it's the result of criminal activities), I'm taking the problems that occur as a result of abusing your body for years or decades.
So I drink more pop than I should. Why should I have to pay more for my healthcare than my buddy who had a habit of timing running green lights as soon as they turned green. That isn't illegal, either, yet it's very risky behavior. It didn't work out for him just one time, and he nearly died. Why should taxpayers have to pay for him?
The answer is because the vast majority of us engage in risky behavior, or just have the bad taste of passing on our poor genetics to the next generation, and the social cost for penalizing people for not agreeing with societal norms are too high. This includes drug use, even legal ones like alcohol. Sure, don't spend limited resources such as donated livers on people who aren't willing to make the lifestyle changes required to make it worthwhile, because someone else will probably have to die for that to happen. But if we could make new livers and the price was reasonable, I wouldn't even be against that.
If your buddy who likes gambling with green lights was convicted of a traffic offence as part of that accident he should have been on the hook for his own healthcare and the healthcare of anyone else he hurt.
Way to miss the point. It's a good thing you don't engage in any risky behavior, or anything that would have a negative impact on your health. I mean, it's not like you would be a hypocrite, right?
I never said "Don't engage in any risky behaviour". Stuff like cardiovascular and lung diseases and Type 2 Diabetes doesn't happen over the course of days, weeks, or months, you have to be chronically treating yourself like crap for years to get to those points.
Free climbers don't usually die the first time, either.