Should You Drop Your Health Insurance?

The recently passed health reform legislation is intended to provide health insurance coverage to all Americans, regardless of their current state of health. Unfortunately, the new law provides powerful incentives that can encourage healthy individuals to drop their current health insurance coverage altogether. But would dropping insurance coverage actually make sense for healthy individuals? To find out, we've built a tool to run those kinds of numbers!

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