h4: The point is that people need to take care of their own life. America is fat, fat, fattyfatfat. People think there's a pill or a drug to fix "anything" - and that belief is flat-out wrong.

At present, millions of people don't see a doctor before the age of 40, at which point they have end-stage diabetes costing thousands of dollars until they die painfully. This could have been treated much cheaper if they saw a doctor sooner.. every time.

If that person's refusal to go to a doctor costs me more money later on.. no, that's simply not a freedom anyone should have.

How does someone else's diabetes cost me money? EMTALA is provided via taxation and higher cost of treatment. When someone walks into an ED, they by law MUST be fully treated.. and the burden of payment is cost-shifted onto the rest of us via raised prices.