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Pro: Will some young Americans opt out of health care coverage?
Some unlikely to pay for the Affordable Care Act
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Grace-Marie Turner
For McClatchy-Tribune
Updated: Jun 2, 2013, 5:00 AM
Published: Jun 2, 2013, 4:11 AM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Virtually all Americans will be required to have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act starting in 2014, and President Obama especially wants young, healthy people to sign up. About two-thirds of the uninsured are under age 40. They use fewer health services, and their premiums are needed to help keep insurance costs down for everyone else.
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Opinion: Sacrifices must be made by all to keep Democracy
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President Donald Trump listens during an event Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. - photo by Associated Press
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Published: Apr 3, 2025, 8:11 PM
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are, in a helter-skelter fashion, converting American democracy into an autocracy with Trump as the autocrat.
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