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Is there an argument that society undervalues and/or underfunded paternalistic preventative health interventions for the wrong reasons? Is there a compelling reason that normal market forces will not solve the task of preventative health?
IMO, most people don't think long-term enough for market forces to be sufficient to solve lifestyle or resource allocation problems.
Unhealthy foods, bad television, alcohol abuse, water rights, sportsball conspiracies, downvote retribution -- really any personal choice that can be made wrongly by a weak-willed mortal meatsack -- are going to require violent (hopefully abstracted and implied violence via government, rather than direct violence in most cases) intervention to solve.
Stricter control of alcohol and tobacco would be paternalistic but most likely it would improve public health.