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Let me play Devil's advocate here. Let's say this caused most employers to drop health care benefits. Well then you'd have millions of people that would need private individual plans. Wouldn't millions of people getting health insurance form places like blue cross REDUCE premiums for all? Of course that's assuming you could get people to take the money they are no longer paying for health insurance through a job and use that money for a private plan. Most people would probably blow it.
Actually the best way to lower health care costs is to get everyone to eat right and exercise and stop smoking and drink less and stop doing drugs. 80% of the population dies from either heart disease or cancer and most of the root cause for both is lifestyle related. But people don't want to listen to that because that would require EFFORT on peoples part. Just like when Obama suggested that making sure you tires inflated would save as much oil as we could get from drilling offshore. Everyone scoffed at that because saying "drill baby drill" is easier than spending 97 cents on a tire gauge and then checking your fucking tires once a week.
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