When you add a mandate to cover pre-existing conditions the cost of health care will skyrocket for ALL of us. Politicians do not understand this simple fact, or maybe they don’t care. The taxpayer, after all, is nothing more than a money machine for Washington D.C.’s wasteful ways.
those of us with preexisting conditions should probably just
euthanize ourselves for the greater good then?
Pre-existing condition cannot be “insured” because it has already happened and trying to do something like that will bankrupt the system and drive it to a government solution...which will be far worse in terms of quality of care and ultimately (due to rationing) in terms of extent of care.
People get sick and die. We are not going to stop that. A free market solution means the most people will get the best care. Just like it has meant that the most people will rise in their economic standing and create the envy of the world when it comes to standard of living and individual wealth. That is really what this debate is about. The socialists and marxists wanting to foist control on the economy and destroy the free market.
The entire idea of insurance is that you can assess the risk of an event in a pool of people who are paying premiums. As soon as you say that somebody gets to wait until AFTER they have an event to join the pool, you are no longer talking about something rational.
Irrationality is the sole province of government.
“Pre-existing conditions” is a straw-man argument any way because current law forbids insurance companies from denying coverage after one year of the condition treatment...see Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).