things from today

[tielan]

I'd have thought a PayPal invoice would show at least one or two of the items being invoiced at first glance.

(Or that people would actually click on the invoice to find out what I'm invoicing them for. But, you know...that's effort.)

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My post-Cap2 fic Hidden In Plain Sight is doing amazingly well for how few people have read it. Better even than Mako Mori And The Eleventy Billion Bridezillas. And that was doing pretty well.

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Trying to marshal my thoughts to counter "we should make fat/unfit/unhealthy people pay higher health insurance premiums" as an argument. (Thank you, Tony Abbott. GDIAF.)

My counter-argument pretty much comes down to:

• health and wellness is a very personal, very individual matter that needs to take into account the physical and mental state of the individual, their time-and-money situation, and the societal pressures that work upon them.


• I do not trust an organisation that is there to manage their bottom line, or there to process people as a mass group, to care about the personal or individual situation.

I'm in a mildly bitchy mood today. Which is better than the mildly depressed state I was in yesterday.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

My argument would be that the more money you have, the easier it is to be healthy, so at least part of "charge fat/unhealthy people more" means you will be penalizing poor people for being poor. For example, if you are on a really tight budget, you will have to buy cheap food. Cheap food usually has fewer nutrients and more fats and sugars, so someone living at the poverty line is more likely to be both fat and malnourished, and both of those cause other health issues. Charging them more for health care because of it is unjust, but it also means they'll have less money to spend on food, which, er, is counterproductive. To say the least.

[tielan]

I explained what I could in as little space as possible. I don't think it will change his mind, but it might show others that the question is broader than they think it is.