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Overweight, out of shape people have high health care costs...however they tend to die early. They often do so before they are old enough to collect on Social Security or Medicare. Healthy people tend to live longer, into old age, where expensive, age related conditions are a great impact. A longer life span typically results in more long term care (nursing homes), which are a great burden on the Medicare system.
Q-Should there be an extra tax on healthy, physically fit people to cover their longer life expectancy, and resulting higher, long term medical costs?
Overweight, out of shape people have high health care costs...however they tend to die early. They often do so before they are old enough to collect on Social Security or Medicare. Healthy people tend to live longer, into old age, where expensive, age related conditions are a great impact. A longer life span typically results in more long term care (nursing homes), which are a great burden on the Medicare system.
Q-Should there be an extra tax on healthy, physically fit people to cover their longer life expectancy, and resulting higher, long term medical costs?
Then the eligibility age for Medicare should be raised. Taxing younger people for being in shape is a ridiculous idea.
No. Skinny, in-shape people are not the ones sucking health care dry.
I always thought in-shape people lived longer...is that wrong?
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