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Originally Posted by firstdown

The number of Americans without coverage is advertised at 40,000,000 which when we hear we think of that many people who cannot afford coverage. Thats a bunch of bull. How many of those people are young just out of schoool and choose not to buy health cov. because they don't see a need? How many families buy that new car or new toy instead of health ins.? How many can afford but have never had a health issue so they take the risk of no health cov? How many people just don't want to work a little harder to afford cov.? My point is that the number of people who cannot afford Health Ins. is much smaller than the Goverment wants us to know so they can solve the problem making more people dependent upon them. The Health savings plan is very affordable to most but people want everthing covered which those plans are expensive. Plus the states and Fed. goverment mandate that certain thing are covered under all policies which drive the cost way up. Some examples are drug addiction, maternity (even if you won't have or can't have a child), mental health cov, etc.. which you have to pay for even if you do not need the coverage.

Define affordable.