Quote Originally Posted by cwolff View Post
Did you read the article about Kentucky? They had something like 35,000 people sign up in it's first month. IN KENTUCKY!
To be fair, people in Kentucky all have to share one computer, vastly reducing the server load.
Quote Originally Posted by Thondalar
Why is this a good thing?
Because being unhealthy impinges on our first and most precious right: the right to life.
In order to make up for the fact that they're going to lose a shit ton of money on people with pre-existing conditions, they're going to have to raise the rates on the rest of us.
The reduction in our ability to pursue happiness (in the form of hookers and blow) is noted, but as our third most important right it is of course less important than our first. This is how society works. Why do you think we haven't had any revolutions in the past 100 some odd years? We treat people right, and everybody is rich.