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I am an advocate for calling people out and using our human emotions like shame or anger to induce change in a person. That's a big influence on how we learn. Your view disregards root causes of these "problems": the American healthcare system and your own constructed ideal self. These people ain't grabbing your wallet. They're not going to change from a comment they'll never read. You are demanding strangers cater to your private standards. You are reprimanding or shunning projected parts of yourself. Nothing to do with these people being photographed like zoo animals. Mind your business
And I'm speaking of math that's not going to change because of your being upset about it.
But you misplace the blame. To clarify my position, I advocate abolishing money, not single payer. You're a systems thinker. It's silly to blame an individual for a flawed system not working.
I didn't blame an individual, I blame whole classes of individuals who are waddling around scarfing down soda and McD's but blaming their genetics. Or smokers, or any other class of people made unwell by their own choices that you mean to subsidize the care of in this post-monetary hippy commune model of medicine proposed.
There it is. Bigotry. Hey, my proposal has 1 variable to change. Yours has 136,000,000 based on our 40 percent obesity rate.
Actually yours has a whole society to uproot and coerce the labor of in order to have your free care.
But sure, calling unhealthy people making bad choices a bad thing is bigotry. Notably America has quite the reputation for being fat, we must all be cursed with some poor genetics or medical conditions that the rest of the world don't have.
You called the concept of them and similar others costing the rest of society money due to increased insurance and healthcare costs moronic. I provided how they do so, you haven't addressed that at all other than to propose that doctors and medical suppliers should work for free.
I know how insurance works. You don't know my views, and I do not care to explain them to you. And yes. Judging an entire class of people sounds a whole lot like bigotry. Anyways, I'll respect your autonomy and let you keep sipping the sweet nectar of superiority.