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To: SilentZ who wrote (750262)	10/30/2013 3:33:33 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

Z, If a couple hundred thousand people have to pay $1000 more a year for insurance that actually prevents that from happening, so be it. Do the math. 200,000 people paying $1,000 more per year for health insurance is $200M. There were 1.2M bankruptcies filed in 2012. If half of those were partly due to medical issues, that is equivalent to 600K bankruptcies. Divide that $200M by 600K and you get $333 per bankruptcy. You really think an extra $333 would have helped? This is just one of many examples of how we'll all end up paying a lot more than you think. We're not talking just a few hundred thousand more people paying $1,000 more per year. We're talking almost everyone having to pick up the tab. You might think that is worth it, and arguably it might be, but the bottom line is that there is no free lunch. In fact, this may be the biggest middle class burden ever passed by the government in recent years. Tenchusatsu