Health Care Bill Favors Marijuana and Cocaine Smokers Over Tobacco Users

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Under the Senate Finance Committee version of the health-care bill, health insurance companies would be allowed to charge tobacco users premiums up to 50 percent higher than those of non-users, while marijuana and crack cocaine smokers could not be penalized with higher premiums.

...insurance issuers selling policies to individuals could only vary premiums based on three characteristics: tobacco use, age and family composition.

[Despite the fact that smokers cost our health system less than 'healthy' seniors, who can have their lives extended by nearly a decade - at extremely high cost. Social engineering + junk science = insane policies.]

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