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To: longnshort who wrote (537989)	12/21/2009 9:30:30 PM
From: Joe NYC	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578148

lns, why should a young person be forced to buy health insurance ?? When I was younger a woman who was the mother of a girl I dated was a big wig in MD's health insurance dept. She said no one under 30 should buy it. There was a time when insurance companies priced their policies based on risk. Meaning a young person would pay, say 1/5 of premium of middle aged or older person. So it was cheap, and not a bad thing to have. But in states like New York, everybody pays the same (state mandate), so young people pay some 5x of what they should be paying, and obviously, a rational decision for a young person is not to buy insurance.