Sorry, justpassingthrough, but you don’t really understand the demographic that visits tanning salons. The one I visit on occasion is frequented by a fairly young crowd. Most young people, if you were to poll them, have no health insurance! This is why HCR is so appealing to them. They can get on (or back on) their parents policy (till they are 26), which would indeed make my above argument null and void. However, that is not the case now. If someone with no insurance develops melanoma from excessive tanning they end up on medicaid. Medicaid is paid for with my (our) tax dollars. So behavior modification is appropriate in order to reduce the incidence of skin cancer (and the costs to the public that it incurs). Most young people think they are invincible and never listen to old folk anyway. However, I don’t think they deserve to die for it. That’s how Republicans think.
All your clap-trap about wealth redistribution and freedom is just delirium from too much of that nasty tea. I understand you are really, really mad you lost the last election by about 10 million votes. A lot of those votes were from young people (who visit tanning salons). To them voting Republican is like admitting they have an STD. But, by all means, campaign on the tanning salon tax, etc. That ought to be interesting. Maybe, John Boehner can be your point man on the issue.
