Running is also used successfully by heroin addicts to help quit. It's actually one of the best ways to help with many addictions. Not discounting your achievement in quitting smoking in any way, but the easiest way to quit an addiction is to slot in a replacement habit that is also pleasurable, and running is deeply satisfying
I hate running, and could never keep up a workout routine with it involved.
Then i found i could really push myself in the pool and have fun. Swimming is so much easier on my body and when I do laps it's almost like a sensory deprivation tank. Just me and the water.
Personally I think what's great about running is that it's also addictive, and so the same personality quirks that make you susceptible to other addictions, at least in my case, make you susceptible to becoming a regular runner.
It's a difference in how the question is phrased. Most people do essentially no research and make no effort to understand the details of things. In this case it's choice = good. No further thought is required as to the actual value added by private insurance.
Defending America’s status quo by saying “choice = good” is one of the crazier things that comes up in these discussions.
A person on Original Medicare today has much more choice because there is no “in network”. All physicians[0] and hospitals and clinics are accessible, without restriction. Also, countries with national care systems like Canada and the UK still have supplemental insurance markets, if you really want that extra choice—but they are small because most people are satisfied with the state-funded care.
The main “choice” you get with the private insurance system these days is which company you want to be locked into using for the rest of your life, as they seem to be increasingly dividing the market so that doctors from health care system A only accept insurance A, and doctors from health care system B only accept insurance B. Sure, you can “choose” another insurer, but then you can’t see any of the doctors you’ve built relationships with. Choice, indeed.
[0] Technically physicians can opt out of accepting Medicare; in practice I’ve never found one who opted out of Medicare that didn’t simply refuse all insurance.
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