LordBrownTrout
Diamond Member
Ok let's continue with that logic. Let's say if you are obese and refuse to stop eating processed/fast food and lower your BMI, and you end up with a serious medical condition like diabetes, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrythmia, hypertension, emphysema, stroke, heart attack, you "get the lowest priority of care. You don’t get ICU. You don’t get Ventilators. You barely get seen in the ER. And you do not get admitted. You won’t even get transported by the Paramedics."
Or how about if you smoke and refuse to stop, and you get cancer (mouth/lung/etc), you "get the lowest priority of care. You don’t get ICU. You don’t get Ventilators. You barely get seen in the ER. And you do not get admitted. You won’t even get transported by the Paramedics."
Or how about if you engage in casual sex and don't use protection, and you get an STD (including but not limited to HIV/AIDS/Hep-C/Syphilis), you "get the lowest priority of care. You don’t get ICU. You don’t get Ventilators. You barely get seen in the ER. And you do not get admitted. You won’t even get transported by the Paramedics."
See how stupid and arbitrary your proposal sounds when you start considering that the vast majority of the healthcare costs in this country are the result of people engaging in behaviors with well-known and foreseeable health consequences. If we started denying healthcare to people because they didn't mitigate the risks of their respective illness, it would eliminate 90% of the healthcare industry. And keep in mind that in the above examples, the likelihood that those behaviors will result in the listed medical conditions is greater than the likelihood that a healthy person will require hospitalization from Covid-19.
Very well said.