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To: Lane3 who wrote (133489)	3/21/2010 4:25:19 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 542571

>>The influx of new, healthy customers will have an effect short term, perhaps just big enough and long enough for the short-term thinkers to declare it successful and then distract us with a change the subject. But the influx is a one-off event. After that, there is no fresh blood and the basic laws of economics must resume their troubling pace.<< The mandate for individuals to buy coverage takes effect in 2014. The mandate for insurance companies to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions, also takes effect in 2014. This is intentional. The insurance companies will have the benefit of a larger pool of customers over which to spread risk, while taking on the additional risk. The risk pool isn't going to contract after that.

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