I love the idea of billing risk takers for rescues. They still have every right in the world to do whatever they want, but if they make a stupid mistake, they have to pay for it. The thing is, there's got to be a line drawn somewhere. Are we going to bill criminals for police calls? Homeowners for accidental housefires? I'm not attacking the idea, I think it's great, but where do you think that line should be drawn?

That's the hard part. Who is to say one is negligant and someone else is just "stranded". I would love to hold those people accountable, but how? I know medical bills are low on the scale when reviewing a credit report. Maybe putting that in a "bill" would make it easier to pass. Then it doesn't sound so "harsh". We can try, but you can't get blood out of a turnip.

Let me carry this logic one step further.  People should be responsible for their actions.  The main killers: heart attack, stroke, cancer are life style induced. 

let's have a FAT TAX.  Let the fatties pay higher insurance premiums, higher rates for medical attention.  According to the surgeons, it's harder to operate on a fat person,  cutting through all that fat to get to the problem.  This incurrs  more billable time and labor intensive effort.

 

But then how can we determine with 100% accuracy that a person who is fat is personally responsible or that they suffer from some condition? What about children? A policy change of this magnitude looks like a legal nightmare to me, and an EXPENSIVE one, probably cancelling out whatever taxes would have been collected. Now a stupid people tax? If they really call it that, I'll support it!!

Well honestly extreamly over weight people are warned. they have more doctor visits then the healthy. There might actually be away to say "You've been warned" "your cost of med. care is going up", "You are too high a risk". Hard subject. Would love it if the subject was black and white.