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To: Dale Baker who wrote (134297)	3/23/2010 8:13:45 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) of 542199

The insurance mandate is similar to Switzerland's except for the penalties. In Switzerland you can go to jail, if you don't buy insurance. The penalties for not buying insurance seem trivial, compared to the cost of insurance. What's to prevent healthy people from paying the penalties and buying insurance only when a catastrophe strikes, since now they can do so regardless of pre-existing conditions?

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