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To: Sam who wrote (236957)	11/6/2013 12:13:51 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 542122

My story is the same as yours. But what I'm paying for is protection against unexpected events like heart attacks, cancer, or a serious accident. That is what I want insurance for. I don't want to pay for being told how to live healthfully. I learned that on my own, and choose to follow reasonable guidelines. Its much cheaper for me to handle that on my own than to pay high priced medical personal via an inefficient payment mechanism. And last but not least, I fully expect to die at some point, and have a will that limits end of life care. That is a choice I've made, because that is my philosophy on life. Further, I watched my grandparents and one parent exit life via the same philosophy and it was much better than the way many people do it. Since I have the same genes, I suspect I'll handle it in similar fashion. What I don't intend to do is what was reported here a day or two ago in one of the example cases (held up as a good thing too!) of a terminal lupus patient whose insurance forked over $1.2M for the last 60 days of his life. Talk about stupidity...