Health Insurance Rates will go up regardless of what you are told

Just read this last night

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33336289/ns/politics-washington_post/

I like how we will be forced to become healthier by government mandate. (NOT)

If they go the way some companies do it now I would not have a problem. Some companies have set up Wellness plans where if you do the requested actions they place a certain amount of money into a Flex spending account that you can use to pay some of your medical expenses with.

But if they go the other way and say you have to fall into narrowly defined criteria then there are major issues. What about the people that no matter what they do, they would not be able to fall into that range? Do you penalize them even though they are doing everything in their control to become healthier?

I spent over six years in the Air Force....close to the end of my enlistment the AF went to a new method to determine your fitness level. I spent close to 2 years going to the gym 3 times a week exercising and I was NEVER able to pass the new standard. I did everything that I was ordered to do and still failed. I learned later that if I stayed in the AF that the "standard" would have been lowered. That just illustrates the fact that not everyone can/will fall into the "standards" that are devised.

Will Congress punish taxpayers who despite doing everything that they can to live healthier (by who's standard) cannot obtain that standard?

Knowing them they will but they will write the law in a way that THEY will be exempt from meeting the same standards and they want us to meet.