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Have you checked your paycheck recently? Most workers  are already paying more than 50% of their gross income in various kinds of taxes- what we don't get for it is free education through graduate school as long as you get good grades, free medical care, and a secure retirement. Give me those things and I will gladly pay 50% of my gross income in taxes.

(By the way, a 6 pack costs $20 because of the extremely high rate of alcoholism in Norway- not a factor of the cost of living)

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If I am not for me, who shall be for me? But if I  am only for myself, what am I?

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Well, if the private insurance companies cherry pick the young and the healthy, and leave the folks with pre-existing conditions and serious illnesses to the Public programs, is it any suprise that the public programs cost more? If the answer is to let sick people die unless they have lots of money, your solution works. 

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For the past 4 years,I have health insurance through my employer. However, due to premium increases, we have changed providers 4 times in 4 years. Each time I have had to change care providers in the middle of treatment.

 I have also had an awful time this past year trying to find out how much out of pocket expenses would result from recommended diagnostic tests. The insurance company says they can't tell me because they have individual contracts with each physician. The physician offices tell me I have to find out about out of pocket expense from the insurance company. AFter going around and around, it's the end of the plan year and we switch insurance companies again.

Bottom line, even with insurance, there is no continuity of care  and no feeling of health care security; and there won't be until there is a real alternative to private for profit health insurance model we are stuck with.

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