donheff
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Maybe, but the very high cost folks are already covered through Medicare and Medicaid, PPACA primarily adds low income working age adults and children who can't get covered (more costly) or who can't afford it (no reason to expect them to be high cost patients). Possibly a slightly higher cost demographic over all but nothing like old folks.I would think that if an ER can get private insurance today, PPACA might result in a price increase as less healthier people are added to the insurance rolls. Although all the pricing rules may mitigate that. On the other hand, I'm still trying to get DW to retire before we develop health problems that might make us currently uninsurable. We can get to 2014 with COBRA, but PPACA is looking pretty shaky now.