Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with...
by TheCoelacanth on Sunday January 01, 2017 @12:40PM
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> The former is paid for by the wealthy person, the latter by society.
How so? Both are paid for by an insurance pool. Unless the skier is paying a higher insurance premium for the extra risk that they are incurring by skiing, they are not paying for their skiing injuries.
Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with...
by yummyfajitas on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:44PM
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Most poor people have insurance which is paid for by the rich.
If insurance companies start to charge skiiers their actuarial cost, I have no problem with this. If they don't I suspect it's simply because there aren't very many.
To me treating wealthy people's skiing injuries should be at least as controversial as treating poor people's smoking-related problems.
The former is paid for by the wealthy person, the latter by society. The poor person is directly harming me by smoking. It's perfectly reasonable to criticize the poor person in this case. Similarly, one might criticize a polluter (who harms us all), but not criticize people who have gay sex in the privacy of their own home (harming no one).
Think of it as shared responsibility - the rich are responsible for paying, the poor can reasonably be held responsible for other things.