she's an extraordinary, capable sales assistant about to be promoted to saleswoman, and she probablyill be very successful. becky thinks she's going to get to the top 1% of income. she also thinks she could never afford health care on her own. now, it's really a problem if the system is such that even someone in the top 1%, who's paying for the other 99%? that's what she believes. in fact, if the cost of health care increases by exactly zero from now until becky dies, becky will put $1.2 million in two the health care system. if the cost of health care increases only at the rate the affordable care act estimates for the next 10 years, in other words, if it's successful, she will put in 1.9 million. if she has a spouse who is working, but becky is the breadwinner and becky provides the insurance, it will add another half million dollars. the two of them open up at two a half million dollars into the health care system. let me mention a couple things about becky. she's entry-level. these assumptions us into important things. she never gets rich. it's not her idea of what's going to hap