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Re:Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? German... by Brotkrumen on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:02AM (#19461698)
And once you get older, your private insurance premiums rise, which you may not be able to afford. Public insurers won't let you back in.
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Re:Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? German... by martin_a on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:37AM (#19461930)
> Public insurers won't let you back in.

I find this perfectly valid and think we should get rid of private health insurance at all. It's undermining our system, pretty much like pension for state workers and alike. We really need to unify this system, imho.

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