But if they're forced to keep such people on
won't they just make their premiums so astronomically high they won't be able to afford them anyway?

(also, good morning, dear boy)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 10:57, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Good morning, old chap
Possibly. It certainly sounds like the kind of thing they would do. However, all I got was a summarised snippet off the Today Programme whilst trying to muster the impetus to haul my arse out of bed, so I don't know the details. (Although if I heard correctly they got the bill through by a margin of about 7 votes, so it's going to continue to be an uphill struggle.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:01, Reply)

The idea is that if everyone pays (as everyone will now be required to have
health insurance) then the premiums will be kept down as there will be more healthy people paying into the pot than sick people pulling money out of the pot (although with an aging population I don't know how long this will work).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)