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> That’s worser than I thought :-( I was thinking that $1400 is too pricey to anybody — turns out that it was higher for people who don’t have insurance.

He's giving you false information, that's not actually true.

If you are poor you don't usually have a deductible in your insurance (because it's government subsidized), which means you are responsible for LESS of the bill, not more.

People have a lot of false views on US healthcare, mainly because it's a political issue, so people have a strong motivation to spin it one way or another.



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