With many pop stars, that would be the moment to reach for the sick-bucket.

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At that point, all those sick enough to warrant being treated would be under treatment.

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Obviously, without an individual responsibility portion in the law, you could not find yourself dealing with preexisting conditions because the only people that would likely get involved in purchasing health care would be the very sick.

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In his own field, even if proper health care could be switched on overnight, it would be no more than a poultice on a society that is chronically sick.

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We could hope, as we listened, that on this great issue, like others demanding answers now -- bringing our fiscal house in order, restoring equality of opportunity to our economy, ending our country's sick obsession with guns -- that future Inaugural addresses would be able to note the kind of material progress that we have seen with regard to combating racism or ending wars.

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With the insurance industry obligated to provide this coverage, parents would be incentivized to delay purchasing insurance for an individual child until that child gets sick.

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Public Citizen, a watchdog group, collated data from the Kaiser Family Foundation in April 2007 to create the only ranking of how Medicare programs rank state by state, the basis for this ranking of the worst places to be sick and poor--that is, the places where it would be worst to get stuck on Medicaid.

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Or when you get sick they try to find what they consider to be a preexisting condition that would justify them canceling your policy.

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Would that be fair to those people who intend to pay into the system every month, healthy or sick?

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Health insurers fear that if the mandate is struck down but the rest of the law survives, they would be forced to accept millions more sick customers without enough new healthy customers to balance out the risk pool.

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