Also charging more, if you had any accident while being intoxicated, for cancer treatment of smokers, if you didn’t secure the ladder that you used up to health and safety standard, if you didn’t wear a safety belt, ….basically for any accident or injury that could have been prevented if you followed ALL rules, not just the one vaccine?!
Hippocratic oath go brrrrrr
I have to be honest, at a certain point personal responsibility needs to play a role somewhere? How about regular patients not getting hospital treatment due to the hospital being overwhelmed with unvaccinated Covid patients?
Do French citizens not pay already through their taxes?
Public health money should help as many people as possible. A good way to raise the number of people helped by health system is to offer for free some prevention methods. This way far less people will need the expensive treatments necessary later. For example some anual basic blood analysis offered for free and mandatory for early discovery of most common and easy to diagnose problems will help a lot the budget (and sufering). Same for vaccines (even more to curb pandemic effects), far cheaper a 20 euro vaccine than weeks of ICU. with money for 2 weeks of ICU for one patient you can help (by vaccination) hundreds if not thousands of people. Same can be said about other vaccines, usually done during childhood.
So yes, imo state should offer for free prevention methods where possible and mandate people to use them. And whoever chose to not use a particular method should pay from his pocket if later it turns out that he needs way more money for his medical condition than otherwise would have required if he’d listen to state’s advice and would have done the prevention procedure and caught the problem in an early stage.
And yes, I know people will start convoluting some simple medical procedure (vaccine, blood analysis) with changing your whole lifestyle (smoke, food, some activity for better body fitness) and call aslippery slope. Apart from the fact that some of those are already taxed and usually going into healthcare budget, this is a different category of prevention, much harder to do and to track, so no, is not the same as a simple medical procedure.
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Also charging more, if you had any accident while being intoxicated, for cancer treatment of smokers, if you didn’t secure the ladder that you used up to health and safety standard, if you didn’t wear a safety belt, ….basically for any accident or injury that could have been prevented if you followed ALL rules, not just the one vaccine?!
Hippocratic oath go brrrrrr
I have to be honest, at a certain point personal responsibility needs to play a role somewhere? How about regular patients not getting hospital treatment due to the hospital being overwhelmed with unvaccinated Covid patients?
Do French citizens not pay already through their taxes?
Public health money should help as many people as possible. A good way to raise the number of people helped by health system is to offer for free some prevention methods. This way far less people will need the expensive treatments necessary later. For example some anual basic blood analysis offered for free and mandatory for early discovery of most common and easy to diagnose problems will help a lot the budget (and sufering). Same for vaccines (even more to curb pandemic effects), far cheaper a 20 euro vaccine than weeks of ICU. with money for 2 weeks of ICU for one patient you can help (by vaccination) hundreds if not thousands of people. Same can be said about other vaccines, usually done during childhood.
So yes, imo state should offer for free prevention methods where possible and mandate people to use them. And whoever chose to not use a particular method should pay from his pocket if later it turns out that he needs way more money for his medical condition than otherwise would have required if he’d listen to state’s advice and would have done the prevention procedure and caught the problem in an early stage.
And yes, I know people will start convoluting some simple medical procedure (vaccine, blood analysis) with changing your whole lifestyle (smoke, food, some activity for better body fitness) and call aslippery slope. Apart from the fact that some of those are already taxed and usually going into healthcare budget, this is a different category of prevention, much harder to do and to track, so no, is not the same as a simple medical procedure.
I’m ok with this.