&gt; Not to politicize these findings, but the travesty of socialized healthcare is the moral hazard implicit in universally treating lifestyle diseases such as type II diabetes<p>In socialized medicine, its more likely that the treatment for those will be early and effective behavior interventions treating the lifestyle problem.<p>&gt; We&#x27;re enabling destructive and expensive health pandemics to spare people their precious feelings.<p>That would be more credible of an argument if the places with socialized medicine and universal treatment had more of these problems than the place in the OECD with the <i>least</i> degree of socialized medicine and universal access to healthcare.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t so much that you&#x27;ve politicized the findings as that in your <i>drive</i> to do so, you&#x27;ve completely ignored the facts on the ground.