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Originally Posted by Robbie
So the states will still have to pick up a much larger burden with so many people on medicaid right?
Also...when you say healthier people cost less...to whom? Yeah, it is always cheaper for me if I stay healthy. Which is why I go to the gym every week and why I try not to eat too much unhealthy food.
Notice the "I" and "me" because I am responsible for myself. Just as everyone should be.
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This might come as something of a revelation, but people with healthy lifestyles sometimes get sick too.
Moreover, when they're precluded from healthcare access early on they end up costing somebody (i.e. the taxpayers) a hell of a lot more when they're dragged half dead into the ER.
It's like they say in that old Midas commercial, you can pay now or you can pay later.