Should patients be treated for dieases they brought upon themselves due to smoking?

Question

for example in the UK patients have to pay the second time they come in with a problem due to smoking.

Answer 1

I'll answer your question WITH a question:

should people involved in car accidents be treated for their injuries when they know that hazards of driving on the highway?

the medical care system in the UK in not actually very good, unless of course you are willing to wait a year or more for surgery (my brother-in-law had to wait 15 months for heart bypass surgery. lost his job, savings and nearly his life waiting).

In the United Nanny States of America we tell people they have free will, then outlaw or tax the things the whiners don't like!

Answer 2

if people DID have to pay for smoking related illnesses, they would go bankrupt!!! just as an example, I am terminally ill.. and yes I smoked for 35 years... I have 3 machines I use---a C-pap for sleep apnea, an oxygen condensor and an electric nebulizer...at $224 a MONTH rental fee... plus 5 medications which, if not covered by insurance, would cost me $400 a month.... I go to my cardiologist once a month at $250 a visit and the pulmonologist once ever 3 months at $250 a visit.. I was hospitalized twice at over $13,000 a TRIP (one week stay each hospital)...and that doesn't count the meds I was given while hospitalized. So, where you you suggest I come up with over $14,000 this year ???? Or are you suggesting that they should have just left me somewhere to DIE because I smoked. Thing is, my illnesses were not CAUSED by smoking----they were the direct result of a medical condition I was BORN with called Klipple-Feil Syndrome (look it up)... but because I smoked I shouldn't have received TREATMENT? Ok so when Britney Spears gets behind the wheel of her car DRUNK and hits a tree, then we should just leave her in the car to die? Everyone has things they do that cause accients and illnesses... that IS why people have insurance (at least int he USA)...and why socialized medicine works in Canada and the UK....you don't turn people away just because they CAUSED their own accident or injury or illness.... if that were the case, almost EVERYONE who enters a hospital would be turned away or made to pay out of their own pocket....

Answer 3

People need to be treated for all sorts of problems that they brought onto themselves all the time. Car accidents because they were drunk or not paying attention, broken legs because they jumped off a roof with a snow board, and the mother of all self inflicted ailments, fat related problems. Fat related problems are the number one cause of health issues. Heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. If your gonna stop treating smokers fro their issues, what about everybody else?

Answer 4

I think so....

I think that things that help you quit smoking should be less expensive. Stop smoking gum and such is almost 50 bucks...and most insurances will pay for cancer and such but they won't cover gum and other stop smoking things....that's what's really wrong....why will they pay for problems later in life caused by smoking yet won't pay for things to help quit. That's almost an oxy moron to me.

Answer 5

same could be asked..should patients have to pay for diseases they brought upon themselves from overeating and drinking alcohol...no

Answer 6

The same question could be asked of yourself. I am sure you do something that is not good for your body. Overeat, drive, stress and worry about trivial things. We all do things that are bad for us.

Answer 7

illness is illness, no one has the right to say anyone has to pay more for this or that treatment because of this or that.
Health is a part of the right to life.