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Individual heath insurance premiums aren’t linked to your behavior or health or activities (apart from smoking). Most of that was made illegal by the insurance reforms in the “ObamaCare” bill.

If many people started doing stupid things though then yes it would raise premiums for all.



Well, that's an argument against that particular method of regulation. Not against people doing stupid stuff.




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