RFK: “People Have Choices About How Sick They’ll Be,” So Maybe Don’t Treat People With Unhealthy Habits

The Daily Beast reports:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t convinced that “society” should pay to treat people with unhealthy habits. Asked in a CBS interview about the basic level of care every American should receive and who should pay for it, Kennedy said that “when it comes to healthcare, that’s a difficult question” with moral and philosophical considerations.

“People have a choice about how sick they’re going to be—many people,” President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services said. “If you don’t have any choice then we should give you all the resources that you want. If you’re smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you expect society to pay when you get sick?”

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RFK Jr. questioned whether society should pay to treat people with unhealthy habits—a category he seems to think excludes anti-vaxxers.https://t.co/5UgmMQRP58

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