I think you're onto something.  I mean, imagine if crack and/or meth addiction -- hell, even alcoholism -- became so pervasive that suddenly it became the "norm," as in an alcoholic or crackhead would receive a liver or ER care before a person who did everything right, good taxpayer and even paid for those wastes of space's medical care -- but they'd rather let the healthy/functioning human die because the crackheads or alcoholics are now more "urgent" and they figure the relatively "healthy" person can afford to wait/the doctors are ordered to gamble with their lives.  Basically, it's a punishment for NOT being an addicted wreck of a burden on and danger to society.  So yeah, I guess that's what the fattening of America, if not the world, is coming to?  :(