This "risk-based pricing" means that if you treat your body like a temple you pay less for health care than your counterpart who overeats and smokes a pack a day.
With one clever stroke of his gubernatorial pen, Pawlenty has effectively separated himself from the pack of Republican governors who consistently diss health care reform only to take the money made available by the law when the bucks are flashed in front of their budget hungry faces.
But the two senators have teamed up to try to extend health care insurance to poor children by hiking federal cigarette taxes by another 43 cents a pack.