The Happy Hospitalist: “There should be a tiered Medicare tax while you are working. Double if you smoke. And your premiums at age 65 should be quadrupled if you smoke.
They should be cut in 1/2 if you don’t smoke, you exercise, and you are not considered obese by all objective standards.”






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