• Private insurance approaches to universal healthcare seem like the only universal healthcare policy formulation that doesn't subsidise and therefore incentivise poor health decisions. Therefore, the primacy of my justice ethics would support that or non-universal health care policy formulations. However, I don't know if evidence supports or opposes the execution of that perverse incentive in actual human behaviour and whether complex other factors (e.g increased productivity of the subsidised risk takers?) sufficiently compensates individuals who are making legitimate, egoistic decisions or better (prosocial). Anyone know what the evidence says, preferably with an indication of the strength of evidence so others evidence can be synthesised appropriately?
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• By taxing tobacco above the Ramsey rate up to Pigovian rates it is sacrificing government tax revenue (by cannibalising the elasticity of demand) for public health gains that can be gained in other ways (eg by tobacco licenses), but that wouldn't that reduce demand too due to less consumption. That’s because even though tobacco tax revenue is high it doesn't match the costs externalised on the health care system.

Counterintuitive relevant fact: Adam Smith support Pigovian taxes

'Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are no where necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.'

• Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776i

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