"[N]early 70 percent of health economists are comfortable charging people more if they engage in unhealthy behaviors that lead to higher health costs. The ACA allows marketplace plans to do just that based on smoking.... Many of today's conversations about reducing health spending focus on prescription drugs. A good deal of drug spending ends up as profits for the pharmaceutical industry -- drug company profit margins above 15 percent are not uncommon.... A plurality of health economists seem to question this argument."  MORE >>