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To: SoConPubbie
Why should my Health Insurance be affected by bad decisions or even unknown circumstances that others encounter?
131 posted on 09/15/2011 10:45:04 AM PDT by Carling
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To: Carling

“Why should my Health Insurance be affected by bad decisions or even unknown circumstances that others encounter?”

Because that is what insurance is. It’s a risk pool.

As an aside, its almost certainly cheaper to give everyone a $112 shot (and that’s the retail price, probably 1/3 that if you are in a big pool) than the millions it cost for cancer treatment per person.

At 7,000 per year, assuming $1 million (conservatively) for cancer treatment that that’s $7,000,000, 000 (7 billion per year).

It’s certainly cheaper to prevent the disease.


139 posted on 09/15/2011 10:49:08 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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