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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “If you're smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 28:23

Many people, if you don't have any choice and you know, then we should give you all the resources that you, that you want. But I mean it's a moral question too and it's a philosophical question. If, If you're smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you expect society to pay when you get sick? Maybe pay for you, just help stop smoking? Yeah. Or should we encourage people, should we incentivize people to take care of themselves and then when they get sick, make sure they're taken care of? (28:23–28:30)

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Questions whether society should bear healthcare costs for individuals with self-inflicted health issues.

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