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Old 07-13-2013, 03:40 PM
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Wow - wonder if this will affect medicare recipients???
If the purpose of the penalty is to incent better health, then I think that the penalty should apply to Medicare - seems that the govt should care about the health of all citizens. Otherwise, the penalty applied to just one sector of the population is nothing more than a revenue source.