this argument would have merit if it wasn't for the fact that hospitals are already required to treat people without insurance until they're stabilized. giving her insulin and blood pressure medication is cheap. but if she goes without them and has a heart attack or diabetic crisis, as she likely will without socialized health insurance, under current regulations she is shipped to the hospital and they "redistribute" that $1,000,000 bill on the people who actually have insurance by raising prices for them.  socialized healthcare prevents fucked-up lifestyles from becoming even bigger problems for the system by keeping these people awash in medications that prevent them from having million-dollar health incidents. it goes not just for people at her weight, but the plurality of americans who have some sort of health problem that could turn critical in lapse of medications. the only realistic alternative would be to have emts and doctors refuse to save lives and just let people who can't pay die in front of them, that's actually what china and india do.
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