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You can provide lots of stuff yourself if the state abandons the whole idea of public health. Of course, be prepared for your taxes and/or insurance going up to cover your neighbors who don't pay for the same preventative care.

Pretty much-was told by an insurance broker one of the biggest factors past history of weather and the obvious things (flooding possibility, dry trees) is my neighbors. Didn't get into specifics but I suspect drugs and gangs.

>one of the biggest factors

One of the biggest factors of what?

Based on the context, I believe insurance prices

Public health is a conspiracy to attempt to get our young men prepared for war!

Assuming you're wealthy enough and well informed enough to know that you should.

Children can't, and a lifetime of dental issues they didn't have the knowledge or good fortune to have prevented is a serious issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...

What does this have to do with childhood dental outcomes?

For example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6169031/pdf/10.1177...

Which finds that fluoridated water likely conservatively prevents about 30% of childhood dental caries.