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This is literally the capitalist argument against universal healthcare: "if everyone would get free healthcare, nobody would take care of themselves anymore, and costs would skyrocket"
When in reality, what you can do with exercise and eating healthy against many expensive conditions is only very little.
You can still get an expensive condition despite living a healthy lifestyle. This comic is bullshit.
You live a healthy lifestyle so you can get a better quality of life. So you don't get out of breath by walking up a flight of stairs, so you have energy to go out after work when you're 40, so you get to play with your grandchildren when you're 70, so you don't have to wither away in a nursing home when you're 80.
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What you can do is limited, but the impact on your quality of life can be huge, especially at old age.
And the truth is that if people actually see their doctors regularly they are more likely to develop healthy habits.
If you see a doctor once a year you're probably going to catch problems early on, when they are easier and cehaper to treat.