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BeckyDem

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2. Opinions coming in with what is known. More division among the masses, more pitting one against

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Mar 7, 2017, 12:19 PM

Mar 2017

the other.

Of course, the new GOP plan also allows insurers to charge older people five times as much as they do younger people. That might not matter for the 40-year-old making $50,000, but it will almost certainly eat up the extra funds a 60-year-old making the same amount would receive under the GOP plan.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/american-health-care-act-obamacare-cliff/518769/

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