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A comment on Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief. Parent comment

Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief by morgante on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:34PM (#12494084)
> So I don't weigh 600 pounds and smoke. But I have to pay higher health insurance premiums than I rightfully should. Why don't they get consequences?

Moral hazard and consequences are exactly why smoking is one of the few things which are allowed to affect premiums under ACA.

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Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief by brianwawok on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:21AM (#12497084)
But overweight is not.
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