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To: SampleMan
I don't think its wild supposition to say that legal drug users would face extremely high insurance rates.
Quit changing the goalposts...
Earlier it was...Health care costs would go up with legalization, and taxes with them...and now it's insurance rates.

If I were an insurance company I would demand drug testing of all covered people and refuse to cover drug users.
...you would probably go out of business. Do you not realize the number of legal drug users you would be depriving your company? Or did you mean "illegal" drug users?

149 posted on 04/24/2006 4:29:18 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36
Quit changing the goalposts...

You can't refer to someone else's post "healthcare costs" and then mine "insurance costs" and say that I'm changing the goal posts. I can only vouch for MY posts. ...you would probably go out of business. Do you not realize the number of legal drug users you would be depriving your company? Or did you mean "illegal" drug users?

Actually, I meant "harmful drug users". I wouldn't really care whether they were legal or not. Companies now charge much higher rates based on tobacco and alcohol, as well as banning certain occupations from coverage. I have no doubt what-so-ever that cocaine or heroine use would make someone uninsurable with most companies based on simple statistics. A higher percentage of crack heads suffer serious medical consequences than sky divers.

172 posted on 04/24/2006 5:27:13 PM PDT by SampleMan
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