Posted on 12/01/2010 8:42:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
OK, I feel better about Cantor.
Could someone please explain to me why Cantor is in a position to be authoritative? He’s embarrassing himself and pissing off those of us who voted for a complete overhaul of the Feds.
Hey you effing moron! We don’t want anything about this bill to survive.
Repeal it or you’ll start seeing your career dissipation light in your left eye!!!
Covering pre-existing conditions is a "feel good" measure which is just totally stupid and indicative that economics are not the guiding factor here -- this is about "social justice".
If it's a preexisting condition, then you aren't buying insurance, you're buying a finance plan, right? I mean, you wouldn't walk into an Allstate office, sign up for new auto insurance and :30 seconds later ask them to fix the dent you had before you walked into the office, right?
I'm not sure what the answer is, but forcing companies to pay for preexisting conditions, isn't it. Rates are going to raise, putting insurance further out of the reach of individuals and small businesses.
What a jerk. First the government makes the insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions. Then the insurance companies try to raise their rates to cover the costs. Then the government tells them, no, you can’t raise rates. Then they shut down and drop all their customers.
Sounds like Obamacare to me.
Stop being such a JERK, Cantor. If the GOP is going to continue to try to be the Party of Me Too, then all of you are FINISHED. DONE. OUT OF THERE!
A house on fire homeowner with no fire insurance by choice, shouldn't be able to call for fire insurance when it catches on fire, and with Pre-Existing Conditions, the same holds true; ESPECIALLY if the "pre-existing condition" is SELF-INFLICTED (such as AIDS, DRUG USE, etc.)
This will kill insurance companies all by itself(pre-existing condition immunity).
That means that if you get diagnosed with a terminal illness, you can still buy an insurance policy after you get the news.
This health care law must have a stake driven through its heart. If any trace of it remains, it can still go into effect and kill the economy.
Is being ‘sick’ of work a covered pre-existing condition?
I’m in Cantor’s district and didn’t vote for him this time. I’ve met and talked to him personally, privately. He’s a RINO mostly interested in position & power....old school Republican, and not a true conservative.
I wrote him a protest letter about TARP when Bush was president, and got a form letter response that was written to the hundreds or thousands who had protested like I did. It was all spin.
If I meet him again, I’ll say, “Why don’t you make all auto insurance companies accept pre-existing conditions then? I can total my car, the call up Allstate, Nationwide or GEICO and say, ‘Hey, you gotta insure me now and pay to get my wrecked car fixed!’ “
You remove all actuarial and accounting bases for the whole concept of insurance, and you destroy the industry.
DUH!!!!
There were zero posts to this when I started writing mine.
In the short time it took me to write mine, there were 8 ahead of me!
We were writing the same thoughts at the very same time......
I live in Cantor’s district. I supported him based on “REPEAL”! I went to his victory party. But I was starting to wonder why I was seeing more Cantor stickers on beat up Subarus next to “Coexist” stickers. Now I know. I feel used.
Imagine there is no gov’t intervention in the insurance market ... short of the usual you must follow your contract. Don't you think you could negotiate a policy to cover your 45-year old 'child', or your high blood pressure, or whatever? Seems to me a free market would take care of that.
Failing that, since we seem to be so afraid of not having the government control things, there should at least be a long waiting period on pre-existing conditions. Looking for insurance when you've always been insured and have a preexiting condition that has been covered for years is a bit different than running uninsured for 25 years and then going for the coverage when you get the diabetes diagnosis.
Yes it’s nice to cover preexisting conditions, but how to pay for it? Either jack up the rates big time to cover the risk. Or make everyone buy insurance (individual mandate) to spread the risk and cost.
Either way, we end up back to where we are now.
Someone once told me I could count on Cantor to do the right thing. I’ll stop listening to that guy.
If I have the pre-existing condition of diabetes, does that affect my insurability for breast cancer? Are we talking about adjusting rates for risk factors, or refusing entirely to insure any but the perfectly healthy?
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