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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 03:43 PM
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2. How will mandating it make it affordable?
Your third link indicates that:

The report also looks at why people don’t have insurance. In 2009, as in past years, “can’t afford it” remains the primary reason.

That sentence is followed by the one you bolded about the 3% and the 5% . . . it rather suggests that if those percentages come from a survey of 100% of the people who do not have insurance, than the PRIMARY reason that 92% of those don't have it is because they can't afford it.

I think you need to revisit your maths - mandating insurance to people who don't have it because they can't afford it isn't going to insure 98% of the population in TN . . . it will apparently put 92% of the currently uninsured on the wrong side of a new law, because they can't afford it.
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