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To: bentway who wrote (240662)	12/28/2013 3:35:58 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541016

<<<<< I know you'd really rather I have insurance, as long as YOUR costs don't increase, but that's not going to happen>>>> WAIT!! That's not what you guys have been arguing though. You're saying we have been tricked? We were promised lower cost - you know more people in the pool. bentway, if you lived in my state your health care cost would already be covered if you are in a lower wage bracket. Do you have wealth bentway? You seem to have no problem paying for your pre-existing conditions according to your earlier comments. If you have no wealth - or very little wealth outside your home - your cost should already be covered. They sure are in my State. If you have oodles of money - you should have to pay your own health care cost. Are you over weight? A smoker? A drinker? Do drugs? Eat at McDonalds? ............and have money to pay your own health care? Why should I or any other hard working middle income wage earner pay for the horrible out of control health care cost for fat people eating junk food and smoking? Is it fair for those who live a rigorous healthy lifestyle to pay for those who don't? ..........And just in case you don't understand the bottom line here bentway..........I have no problem voting REPUBLICAN! Haven't done so often lately, but I sure can and will if I think necessary.

To: bentway who wrote (240662)	12/28/2013 5:32:22 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541016

You've come to the nub of it Bentway IMHO. Will Americans tolerate paying more for the other guy? We should know the answer within the next year. Monday morning quarterbacking is almost always an exercise in futility and I don't know what constraints everyone was under when the AFCA was written (certainly profit for the insurance companies was included), but in retrospect I wish we could have designed a barer bones major medical plan that covered people for just the big stuff and required them to purchase that instead of these policies loaded up with frills/extras. If along with that we included the options that were available for extra fees for people who wanted them (maternity care etc.); then, I think, but am not sure, we would not be saddled with as much subsidization by one group (the healthy) for the other (the sick) and that would go down easier. I mean the first item is to get a plan through that the American people can live with--right?