Should smokers and overweight people receive healthcare treatment 12 Articles

by Karon Brandt

U.S. policy seems to be to provide health care for anybody that needs it. I see the emergency rooms constantly filled with people. Many can't afford to pay, but they receive treatment. By law, hospitals MUST care for those...read more

by JoanM

Living in the UK everyone is treated the same, rich or poor, smoker or non-smoker, obese or thin. So my reply is YES smokers and over weight eople should receive health care treatment. Until I retired I worked in a Heal...read more

by Francis Palmieri

Would you be pleased to have a physical infirmity and not be able to get professional help? Perhaps as a youngster you started smoking and became addicted. If you are locked into a smoking addiction that you cannot break o...read more

by Thaxton Lewis

This question is really morbid. Of course smokers and overweight people should receive healthcare treatment. People who are overweight or smoke or both are often people who are very stressed. Not having healthcare coverag...read more

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by Candy Jules

I'm going with the overweight issue first. Weight changes can come from many things, and most of these are not from over eating, or eating the wrong foods. If you will look at family genetics, you may see that most of the ...read more

by Ethel Smith

I understand the concerns that many people have about the hospital treatment received by smokers and overweight people, but feel that there is absolutely no question that these people should still receive treatments.Here a...read more

by M. L. Kiser

Doctors playing God, deciding who to treat and who not to treat based on such things as overweight, smoking and alcoholism. Well why not; after all, it's clear that many of them mistake themselves for God. As a victim o...read more

by Lorlyn

This kind of question disturbs me because people are living human beings and grant it so people do not always do as their doctor prescribes or instructs, but from my experience I have been to doctor's who do not listen to ...read more

by Renee Dawson

If one is to ask "should smokers and overweight people receive health care treatment". then one must ask if anyone should be offered health care based on what kind of illness they have. For instance, should one receive tr...read more

by George Goodall

Should smokers, and/or overweight people get health care ? Why stop there ? Drinkers ? Drug takers ? Un safe sex practitioners ? In essence should people, who by a life style choice expose themselves to ill health get he...read more

by Bunny Kennard

This is an issue I first came across whilst studying Spanish Culture at A-Level, and now I hear talks of the same occurrence in the UK. The issue I am referring to is the recent bombshell dropped by the NHS about whethe...read more

by nickname

This question seems to be worded incorrectly. It must be. It must not have originated from an American... To answer it honestly, one must include all socially induced behavior issues. Some other ones that should be i...read more