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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (18740)	9/1/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Yes, bp. Hillary Clinton made a remark indicating that 25 year-olds were dropping health insurance and not paying their "fair share". Hillary views health insurance in a similar manner to taxes. What the truth of the matter was was that 25 year-olds were no longer able to afford health insurance because of some states, notably New York state, passing the community rating provision for individual health insurance. This caused premiums for 25 year-olds to double overnight as premiums for 65 year-olds with heart disease dropped. As the younger population could no longer afford the insurance, they drop the coverage thereby requiring those premiums to go still higher to offset the losses on the high risk population. This probably also contributed to unemployment since the cost of retaining the 25 year-olds on the payroll increased. Of course, politicians never examine the side impacts of their policies --- they just blame people for making rational choices in the face of irrational policies.