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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by lotsofpulp on Thursday February 16, 2023 @01:59PM (#34823855)
In the US, Affordable Care Act limits health insurance pricing to be based on just a few parameters:

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/

It is a political exercise though, seeing as how it was politically acceptable for tobacco users to not be subsidized by non tobacco users, but it is okay for alcohol users to be subsidized by non alcohol users.

Similarly, it is okay for excessive sugar and carbohydrate consumers to be subsidized by appropriate carbohydrate consumers. Or exercise and non exercise...etc

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by BeFlatXIII on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:15PM (#34827273)
> It is a political exercise though, seeing as how it was politically acceptable for tobacco users to not be subsidized by non tobacco users, but it is okay for alcohol users to be subsidized by non alcohol users.

Smokers stink up the area with secondhand smoke while boozers don't have an inherent stinkiness to their activity.

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