Posted on 12/11/2012 3:43:38 PM PST by dynachrome
Tuesday's Poll
Are you OK with paying $63 a year if it means coverage for those with pre-existing conditions?
Yes
No
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Glad you got this one up and running!!
FReeEEeePED:
Let’s go FRiends. Poll needs FReeping. Lefty paper,lots of illegal alien sob stories, not far off the LA Times.
Yes
105 Votes, or 36.45 %
No
183 Votes, or 63.54 %
figured a way. FR still wonky, though.
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and it doubled again. sigh.
I only wish there was a HELL NO option.
Daily News endorsed Romney.
Pre-existing conditions like pregnant ?
Or the possibility of pregnancy.
Total Votes = 391
Yes
113 Votes, or 28.90%
No
278 Votes, or 71.09%
Pregnancy raises an interesting issue. If you were pregnant before, had a lapse in coverage or no coverage, and you get pregnant again, the latest one could, from a broader perspective, be considered a pre-existing condition. At $63 a pop for all the minority births now covered by Medicaid or no insurance at all, this could get real expensive.
BTW, I voted a resounding NO on the poll. The now 28.64% that are willing to ante up probably don’t even have insurance now so it’s no big deal to them.
I remember in the olden days, being asked if my husband and I intended to have children - then were told I could not be covered without a huge increase in premium.
Truth is pregnancy/delivery is expensive, I understand why the insurance companies want additional monies.
What about cancer?
It tends to recur.
Treatment is EXPENSIVE.
Total Votes = 469
Yes
125 Votes, or 26.65 %
No
344 Votes, or 73.34 %
HELL NO! I’ve had preexisting conditions since 1958! Do I sit back on my fat ass and complain, “Oh! woes is me?!”
NO! I went to school, studied and worked hard to acquire a marketable skill, then went to work and bought my own insurance, made a living and raised three great kids!
Where is it written that, because I was successful providing for myself and family, that I’m somehow responsible for you?
I’m all in favor of the John Smith welfare system! Don’t work, can’t eat! I know, oh what about those who can’t do!? Well they need to put the “bite” on family first and me last! It amazing how motivated a truly needy person is!
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Total Votes = 496
Yes
130 Votes, or 26.20 %
No
366 Votes, or 73.79 %
The premise is idiotic. The idea that it will only be $63 dollars is absurd considering how many people will drop insurance when companies are forced to pay for pre existing conditions. It costs roughly 3800 dollars a year for me to be added to my wife’s insurance. Drop the insurance, pay the 2000 dollar fine to the IRS and I am ahead 1800 bucks a year. When I get sick, ill just go buy insurance and have my pre-existing condition covered. How many others will make that calculation and what will that do to an insurance compnany’s risk pool?
Would you pay $1/year in extra tax for eternal prosperity, universal brotherhood and eternal life?
The Daily News also endorsed uber lefties Diane Feinstein, Fran Pavley and Henry Waxman and urged a “YES” vote on Prop 30, a “temporary tax hike.”
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