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by eddieplan9 1602 days ago
Maybe insurance companies should drop them (or raise their premium, just like what they do with smokers).
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Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers aren't legally allowed to set premiums based on vaccination status.

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/

Should insurance companies also drop low income Americans with diets that trivially lead to heart disease? Shouldn't we, as a society, take care of those who don't know better?
Just record license plates at all fast food restaurants, probably most restaurants, really, average meal runs over 3/4ths of what an average adult male needs to maintain weight.

Liquor stores and bars, too. Ethanol is at least as bad for your body as straight sucrose/fructose.

Log time spent on Facebook, steam, Reddit, etc. Statistically inactivities.

Hell, we could probably reject 75% of Americans in the first three months without any sort of death panels being necessary, just let Google, Target, and walmart machine learn AI the rejection criteria and alert the insurers.