Source: Raw Story
An Indiana Republican has what he thinks is a novel idea in helping ameliorate America’s health care crisis: raise premiums on those who have sex without a condom.
And yes, he made this proposal in public. (”And we thought paying for sex was a no-no, especially for scandal-wary Members of Congress,” Roll Call’s Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton quip.)
Indiana Republican Steve Buyer raised his cash-for-condoms proposal Thursday during a markup of the healthcare bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Roll Call notes. Under his plan, those who engage in risky behavior, smoking, not exercising, and having unprotected sex should have to pay a higher premium for their health care.
“After all, the reasoning goes, those people are more likely to incur higher health care costs than cigarette-eschewing, condom-wearing gym bunnies,” Heil and Brotherton add.
“Someone who smokes, drinks, participates in bad conduct and behavior, unprotected sex, maybe bad things happen to them, maybe they should pay higher premiums,” the congressman said. “That is a radical thought, isn’t it?”
Buyer didn’t suggest how his plan might be policed — aside from the obvious production of children au naturale.
