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dwelling on the injsutice is not the issue here, the issue is....is it too late to tell.  Am I too late to protect others.

How can one "get over it" when you know that it continues to happen to others. 

I find your comment callous and trite.

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Repeal.  Age should not matter.  Had I known then what I know now...that it would be a good thing to tell, that no one who would think less of me if I did.  I attended 3rd grade at a school in Springfield and my teacher was a predator.  I often wonder and worry about all the girls who he taught after me, how far he went with them.  I am as guilty for their abuse as is the abuser, because I did not tell. I am now 53 and I know he could no longer be teaching, but my heart breaks for all those other girls.

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Employers require participation to keep premiums affordable.  The number of participants and the demographics of the group play as much a part of setting the premium as does the plan benefits that are chosen.  Keeping the premiums affordable help the employer and the employee.

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I agree that medical insurance needs change.  Legislating consumer protection policies is important.  Making those policies national and not state by state ensures equality.

However, I emphatically disagree having to pay more taxes to cover the costs of insurance for others.  And I loath the idea of a single payer system funded by people like me who work hard for what I have. 

I am tired of being forced to compensate for those who make poor choices.  I chose to finish school so as to be employable.  I chose to work to gain insurance for my family.  I choose to drive a older used car and live in a home I can afford.  I choose to make insurance a priority over designer purses, a $20,000 wedding, $4.00 designer coffee, $200.00 designer cell phone bills w/internet access, the list goes on and on. 

I'm sick and tired of the poor poor pitiful me whining and entitlement mentality that seems so pervasive in our country.   This country was built on the backs of people who knew what it was like to work, to sacrafice.  Now we are a nation of give me, give me, give me....while sitting back and watching tv, collecting all the government benefits.

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