In a Louisville Courier Journal news article about premature births in Kentucky, Sen. Denise Harper Angel said the following:
"Everything we can do to invest in healthy babies results in healthy adults and less cost to health care," she said.
This is demonstrably false.
The article was inspired by a March of Dimes study finding one-third of pregnant women in Kentucky smoke cigarettes. Recommendations included expanding government-run health insurance and paying for smoking cessation programs.
Let's say we were to expand state-run health insurance for pregnant women who smoke. The increased taxpayer liability is certain to cost us more than it does now.
A real-world example is illustrative: according to ehealthinsurance.com, not one health insurer in Kentucky's individual health insurance market offers maternity coverage for women who smoke. If the big insurers -- whose job it is to assess and price risk -- don't want to play that game, why should taxpayers?
Maybe we should invest in U-Haul trucks and road maps to New York and send our pregnant smokers out of the state. That would certainly be cheaper.
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This so typical of the socialists in charge of our various governments. It seems everything the free marketplace deems a bad risk or a bad investment, they want our tax dollars to subsidize.
It all boils down to this. You can't tell liberals no on anything. They just find another way to do it.
Amazing!
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