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amcgrath

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8. This is the crisis that everyone is refusing to talk about.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:55 PM
Friday

And it's not just measles. The government has made it illegal to ask/require workers/students/customers to mask or be vaccinated.Along with vaccinations, they have cut all sorts of screening and monitoring programs. They have also shut down offices that would once collate health information - such as outbreaks of measles - and take steps to limit the spread.
Insurance companies work by calculating risk. Measles - once classed as eradicated in the USA has been reported as having hit 1,748 cases this year - on track to beat its previous yearly record since vaccinations by the beginning of summer - and bear in mind that parents who don't care for vaccines are also less likely to report cases.
When your kids are more likely to encounter measles, mumps, chickenpox and whatever at school, the odds of them catching something go up. When the odds of riding the subway with someone with TB go up, so will premiums, when the odds of the staff at the lunch counter having hepatitis go up, so will your premiums. And when hospitals are forced to treat patients without healthcare, they will recoup their losses by increasing prices on other services. Meaning insurance premiums will be pushed higher.
The republicans are doing to health insurance, what climate change has done to Florida home insurance

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