if healthcare was totally free, what's to stop people from totally trashing their bodies then asking for organ transplants on the public dime?
Hell yes, if healthcare was free, I would totally be trashing my body and getting free organ transplants - again and again - I just can't think of a better way to spend my time!
Some people think that way, they just don't say it like that. If you smoke two packs a day, drink until you pass out a few nights a week, and eat fried food every day, you're making conscious decisions that are affecting your overall long-term health.
My point was that if you're going to be using the public healthcare system (that everyone is paying for), then you should have to compensate that system for any damage that you purposefully cause to your own body that will drive up the costs of keeping you alive and healthy. If you live a reasonably healthy lifestyle and then get liver cancer because you're genetically predisposed to it, that's not your fault, and so you wouldn't be charged extra for it. If you got liver cancer as the result of living a hard and fast life, then yes, you should be compensating everyone else, or at least seeing a private physician instead.
Hell yes, if healthcare was free, I would totally be trashing my body and getting free organ transplants - again and again - I just can't think of a better way to spend my time!
Seriously, what?