'Bama proposing obese state emps. pay more for insurance

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Originally Posted by Moonliner

Why stop at weight?

As Alex pointed out certain diseases can be hereditary, tall people don't live as long,overly fit people actually have a higher mortality rate as do lefties and anyone that does not drink moderate amounts of alcohol.

Now with the advent of genetic testing there are all sorts of new windows opening for determining who is higher risk for the insurance industry.

And then they could just start monitoring you right? Who says if you had one drink today you wouldn't have one tomorrow, or that you would have 10 tomorrow.

It works now because we all pay into it. Yeah - I may be fat... but you've got a family history of breast cancer and that guy over there is going to get lung cancer. We've ALL got something wrong with us now or will have something wrong someday. They would have to either exclude everyone or charge everyone more... hmmm...

Should I pay more my whole life because I'm overweight? If so, then you should go bankrupt when you (not YOU but - you in a general sense) get cancer and have to have surgery and chemo and all that. Right? It's only fair that if I have to pay more all along that when something really bad happens to you that you have to pay a hefty price then.

But that's the whole point of having health coverage isn't it? To avoid having to pay an enormous fee sometime in the future.

And what about the person who develops a disease after paying decades into it, and then gets told that they are no longer covered. Oh wait - that happens now already doesn't it.