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Would you be in favor of health insurance plans that cost less but force you to make lifestyle changes?

I saw somewhere that an estimated 90% of diabetes, 70% of heart disease, and 60% of cancer cases are directly related to either obesity, sedentary lifestyle, tobacco use, or drinking outside of moderation. For the amount of people that whine about drug prices, insurance costs, and drug bills, 1 out of 3 americans is overweight, something like 1 in 5 americans over 50 or 60 or something are diabetic or prediabetic (each case of diabetes costs an average of $10k per year in treatment and complications), and about 1 in 3 die of heart disease. People do not take personal responsibility for themselves, and they cost society a lot of money. Would you support an insurance plan that would be lower cost, but would drop your coverage if you developed a chronic disease like diabetes or something, and failed to get your weight down to a certain goal, mange you condition, etc. or maybe COPD and maybe you would have to quit smoking within 6 months, etc etc? Would you join the plan? Is it fair? if a large enough part of the population joined, it would probably drop peoples rates on this new plan a lot since most money in healthcare is spent on managing chronic conditions, and people on traditional plans would have their rates go up since the responsible people who generally pay in more than they use would be on the new plan not government, im talking private insurance. but yes i would love it if the government forced people on medicaid and other assistance programs to meet such goals

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  1. that would allow too much government interference into our lives I want less government involvement in my life But, you do make an excellent point
  2. I would join the plan. But I have hypoglycemia and am very prone to diabetes and heart diesease because of my family history. I can eat cardboard and still have a good chance of developing these. Because I do take care of myself (for the most part), I do not get sick often. You do make a good point. LL
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