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Re:Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth by GarrisonPrime on Monday October 24, 2016 @09:26PM (#12784459)
False. You could certainly get insurance. Even my dad, a 105-pack-year smoker with diabetes, emphysema, obesity, and hypercholesterolemia got insurance.

It may not have been cheap, but it was cheaper than the "insurance" I as a 37-year-old perfectly healthy individual am now paying. >:(

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Re:Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth by hiram112 on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:44PM (#12785128)
That's because you, as a 37 year old healthy individual, are subsidizing your father's healthcare. That was one of the main goals of Obamacare: push up and force premiums on younger people to help pay for the increasing costs of the large Boomer generation.
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Re:Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth by GarrisonPrime on Sunday November 06, 2016 @12:10AM (#12883463)
You misunderstand a bit; my father cannot currently get anything near affordable health insurance.

I mean before Obamacare.

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