People who choose not to vaccinate should have to pay higher rates for insurance.

I don’t think that people with genetic markers for medical problems should pay higher rates, but choices and behaviors are different. Insurance should be higher for people who smoke, drink, refuse vaccinations, do drugs or engage in high risk sports (I’m thinking of people who skate, skateboard or cycle in those parabolic cement performance venues….for example).

I say this as a drinking, smoking, and have-done-my-share-of-pot citizen. Taxes on booze and cigarettes are already in place. We need to tax or increase the price of insurance for other risky behaviors of choice like choosing not to vaccinate. (Frankly I think that everyone should specify medical end of life choices and people who choose——-maybe out of fear or religious convictions——-to FIGHT for every last breath or to save every faltering pregnancy before 27 or so weeks, no matter the cost, should have to pay higher insurance rates as well. But that is another debate……)