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Tell your friends about the hidden health care tax

Here's how the Hidden Health Care Tax works:

Without health care coverage, people don't get treated until they end up in the ER — which besides being much more dangerous to their health, costs much more to boot. This cost gets shifted to everyone: Experts estimate it increases your health care premium as much as 9 percent.

It doesn't have to be this way. If we invest the money we're paying in the hidden tax into getting everyone access to preventative care and chronic disease management, it will reduce health care costs for everyone. Getting everyone covered simply makes sense.

Please share this information with your friends and family today and ask them to sign the Quality Affordable Health Care Now Petition.

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Message (Feel free to add you own personal comments)	We all know we pay through the nose for health coverage, and lots of people are priced out of coverage. But here's the kicker: The fact that lots of people don't have health coverage actually increases costs for everyone. It's called the "Hidden Health Care Tax." To calculate the hidden health care tax you'll pay this year, click here or paste this link into your web browser: http://www.ospirg.org/action/health-care/hidden-tax?id4=TAFSent ************************************************************ You've been sent this email by a friend. If you've received this email in error, we apologize.