The Bill-Shifters (Kinda Like Shape-Shifters)

 N-TV brought up this topic in the AM today.  

The Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (out of Berlin) wants to force the non-vax folks to 'share' in the cost of medical/hospital services.

What it cost for a severe case....with ventilation, in a German hospital?  The average is around 77k Euro (figure about 90-thousand US dollars).  Some chunk of that money would get dumped upon the non-vax guy.

Odds of this getting pushed?  You'd trigger a reaction where non-vax people decline hospital options, and quietly go die in the hospital parking lot or at home.  The death rate? It'd have to rise at least 10-to-20 percent higher.  Course, statistically....the lessening of non-vax people would help the national average improve.  

This pro-bill-dump crowd would probably be happy because the lesser-intelligent no-vax folks were more doomed than the smart-intelligent vax folks.  

I just don't see the Bundestag wanting to engage in cost sharing (cost-dumping is more appropriate).  

But this brings up another issue.  If this was so brilliant and acceptable.....why not cost-share out cancer treatment for those who smoke cigarettes' as well?  Figure the 40k Euro cost of chemo treatment, and hand the smoker a personal bill of 9k Euro because they weren't a clean-living individual.

What about the druggies?  Calling an ambulance out for some guy who was over-dosing?  Shouldn't you hand that gal/guy a bill of 5k Euro for the ambulance and medical care required?  If they can't pay it....leave them there on the street, and let them pass onto the great beyond. 

What about the crowd on 31 December using fireworks and trigger some big injury that requires 20k Euro of medical attention....can't we hand that guy a 10k Euro bill?

But here's the key question to ask....if you got vaxed-up, and still get severe Covid (requiring 10 days in the intensive care facility)....who can we hand that 50k Euro bill to?  The guy who got well....the vaccine company....or the politicians who promised 'pure protection' with the vaccination?  

These guys are opening up a big mess, but I like the way they think.  Maybe we can weigh folks upon entry into hospitals, and for each kilo/pound over the preferred amount....charge up 9 Euro per day per kilo, as a extra fee.  Maybe even the train and bus folks could weigh folks upon entry and add a 1-Euro fee to the chunky women/men.