I just learned today that as a smoker I am going to have to pay 1.5 times extra for my healthcare once the affordable care act kicks in, what's so affordable about that. I have schizophrenia and we smoke at a rate of 70 to 90%, much higher than the general population. This is in my opinion discrimination. Why not charge those who eat high cholesterol diets pay more, or the obese, why not the alcohol abuser or known drug abuser, how about the sedentary. Fact is there are more than one unhealthy lifestyles yet only one is being made to pay more. In my opinion this is BS.
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