WHO PAYS FOR CARE IF THE INDIVIDULAS HAVE NO INSURANCE.IF AN INDIVIDUAL CHOOSES TO MAKE HIMSELF OR HERSELF ILL BY USING ALCOHOL OR ILLICIT DRUGS, DO THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE?
2007-01-25 13:33:59 · 6 answers · asked by colecole1979 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
They have a right to health care as long as they pay for it. I forgot to change the oil in my car. My engine blew up. I want the government to pay for it, do you argee? Should the government pay for me to get a new engine for my car? 70-80% of all health problems are self inflicted. Someone wants to smoke, drink, use drugs, and not eat properly, and when they get sick they want me to pay for it. If you don't want to brush and floss your teeth, I don't care. Just don't be looking to me to pay for it when you need dental work. I got my own teeth to take care of you know.
2007-01-25 13:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of the treatment centers justify the bill to health insurance based upon an illness. More often than not the patient with a problem finds new friends that have the same problems. It could be a training center on how to meet the addictive needs. You have run out of options and in treatment you find new life in bad choices. If you pay for and keep your insurance current the money you pay should benefit you. The cost of addition is mainly in larger premiums. I think that saying drugs are a crime opens another cost to the public for those that choose to abuse. The prison populations have exploded with people that substance abuse. At least with insurance we have some money coming back to the society. If you are a criminal you go to jail but if you abuse drugs and can pay for health care you should get help. If you are not able to stop and get another job you should have a difficult time paying the high premiums. The risk goes to the abuser, or it should. Pay and you shall receive. This makes sense to me.
2007-01-25 14:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by Pablo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do they currently have a right? Yes, and they are entitled to be treated like any other person who comes into the health care system.
Is it right that they get the same treatment as everyone else? Not my right to say. A person is a person, and if they are ill they deserve to be cared for.
Does it anger me to the nth degree that no matter how good of care they receive and how to close to wellness we can make them that the reality is that as soon as they walk out the door they destroy that health.....yes it does.
But where is the solution? Consider them throw away and do nothing? Not every alcoholic or drug user is hopeless. So who is to say if we don't care for John the alcoholic today that he might have turned his life around tomorrow.
And.....every druggie, junkie, tweaker, drunk.....is also someone's daughter, son, brother, sister, mother, father.......who are we as the health care system to say that they are not worth the time and money it takes to save them?
2007-01-25 14:11:29 · answer #3 · answered by Susie D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The drug and alcohol abusers cost our country a huge amount of money not to mention the pain and misery they cause to others.
They must be very selfish people to want to do that.
No clue what to do with them other than put them into institutions to keep them off the streets until they are capable of living a responsible life.
2007-01-25 13:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by Kunta Kinte 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They do have a right but should not. Drug and alcohol abuse is a choice. You choose to start and only you can choose to stop. They should be locked up if they commit crimes. Unfortunately, there are liberals everywhere willing to give out freebies.
2007-01-25 13:39:25 · answer #5 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts is the duty of the state. However, this must be minimized because the money being used is money from taxpayers which should go to other beneficial projects.
2007-01-25 13:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋