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Was suspended but not the other student. he says he bought it for 25 tickets at an arcade. the school system says it cannot comment on school discipline issues. tomorrow could be the most important phase of the health care overawl. there are not too many people expecting a smooth start. >> reporter: with president obama's signature legislation on health care about to begin, there's still numerous questions about how and whether it will work. >> obama care succeeds or fails based on enrollment. >> reporter: the most important is whether young people will sign up. >> the key are the young and....

If you're younger and healthier and fairly well off you will probably pay a somewhat higher premium. but if you were older and sicker and possibly were not allowed to get insurance, even if you were turned away by your company, you were paying a high price, you get a much, much lower price. and given there is about a trillion dollars of government subsidies coming into the market paid by rich people and parts of medicare, you have most of those people paying quite a bit less than they would for health insurance. >> i saw fox running a hilarious apples to oranges, no guarantee around it, no reg...

Is not to say everybody will pay a lower premium. if you're younger and healthier and fairly well off you will probably pay a somewhat higher premium. but if you were older and sicker and possibly were not allowed to get insurance, even if you were turned away by your company, you were paying a high price, you get a much, much lower price. and given there is about a trillion dollars of government subsidies coming into the market paid by rich people and parts of medicare, you have most of those people paying quite a bit less than they would for health insurance. >> i saw fox running a hilarious...

>> whatever we had in the warehouse we would try to fit it to that age group we were giving it to. >> reporter: was it company's leftovers, basically? >> that's what it seemed like, yeah. >> reporter: what happens to the donated money? in ten years kids wish network raised $127 million and nearly 90% of that went to professional fundraisers, not sick kids. the sick kids, they got at most 2.5 cents of every dollar raised. the charity's attorney says there is nothing illegal about the fund raising. maybe not but this former marketing associate said there was something wrong to him about how they...

>> reporter: what happens to the donated money? in ten years kids wish network raised $127 million and nearly 90% of that went to professional fundraisers, not sick kids. the sick kids, they got at most 2.5 cents of every dollar raised. the charity's attorney says there is nothing illegal about the fund raising. maybe not but this former marketing associate said there was something wrong to him about how they did it. at events where sick children were given the surplus goods, his job was to photograph those kids for promotional purposes, and he was told the sicker, the better. >> they wanted t...