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To: combjelly who wrote (533087)	12/4/2009 6:39:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577188

I've been in that income group as well, and know a lot of people who are. While people certainly aren't the perfect textbook utility maximizers of oversimplified economic models, they do respond to incentives. Take most of the extra money they earn and at the margin they tend to make fewer efforts to earn more. Edit - I see the actual specific point was that issues about insurance coverage affects people's decisions, not about the more general issue we've been discussing about incentives from marginal taxes and benefit levels. So your response fits a bit better and I'll more directly address it, without erasing my earlier comments the only ones who use insurance as a major decision factor are those with, or have dependents with, something chronic They are a significant group. If your agreeing that they do, then your agreeing the my point applies to many people. Also I'd say they aren't the only group for whom insurance issues have some significance. For others such issues are usually not the biggest issue, but that doesn't mean they have no importance.