A car of interest....

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Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

So it's okay that Obama lied to us because we know his goal is a single payer system . Not that this would be true of any of my neighbors, but if my neighbor down the street is the same age and also doesn't smoke, but weighs 500 pounds and drinks a bottle of vodka a day (I don't drink and am not obese), why should we pay the same for health insurance? ObamaCare only allows physical location, age, and smoker vs non-smoker to be taken into consideration re insurance rates.

I don't know the answer to that, but here alcohol and cigarettes are taxed to the sky so it kind of evens out.

I'm also shocked by how much people pay for health insurance in the first place. I was reading that somebody my age would pay about what I pay in a year for income tax for their health insurance alone, plus about the same amount of income tax!

I'm fascinated by the social programs in the US. They seem to be somewhat jumbled and inefficient and with a great variance by state.