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To: bart13 who wrote (132078)	3/14/2017 4:34:51 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218133

People like myself who pay for health insurance pay not only for ourselves, we also pay for the medical costs of people like youreself who refuse to purchase health insurance. When you get into an accident or develop a catastrophic illness and file bankruptcy after running up hundreds of thousands of Dollars of medical costs, that loss is built into my rapidly increasing health insurance premiums. The Affordable Care Act reduced the rate of increase in insurance premiums, but people like yourself were outraged you were going to be charged a $180 penalty for not purchasing medical insurance. One of the biggest costs of amending the Affordable Care Act is going to be significant reductions in Medicare benefits for retired Americans as TrumpCare removes significant amounts of funding for this program to make up for higher losses in the healthcare system. To offset the cost of freeloaders the Republican proposal will not charge you the $180 penalty, but will instead add a rising surcharge onto your insurance premiums should you decide to later buy medical insurance. The initial surcharge will add 30% to your insurance premiums, but this will need to increase rapidly to keep the healthcare system solvent. We all pay a tremendous amount of money out of pocket to subsidize uninsured free-loaders.