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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133734)	3/19/2010 1:06:35 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543114

Kenneth; When they do have to accept those pre-existing conditions in 2014, they will have the additional premiums from the younger, healthier patients who have been mandated to have coverage. Well I hope you are right - but I think you have been sold a bill of goods. You are correct that younger people are healthier - but to think that young people have untapped money to buy health insurance is just nuts in my mind. Our colleges are filling up because young people can't find work and are going back to college. Annnnnd, what are you going to do - throw them in jail if they fail to buy insurance? Send them a bill? You have to have auto insurance too - but many many don't. I was rear-ended not long ago by a guy who was on drugs and of course had no insurance. No drivers license either. I asked the cop about the insurance situation since my truck was totaled in the wreck. He said he'll just go get another piece of junk and continue to drive. The cop said that he stopped a guy in a brand new high end car and wrote him up for not having insurance. The cop told me the uninsured driver just said insurance was too expensive and it was cheaper to not have the coverage and pay the tickets.