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Where did you find “condemn the sick to death” in your copy of the Bible? I sure can’t find it in mine.

There’s nothing “free stuff” about wanting a pre-existing condition covered in insurance that you’re PAYING FOR. When a consumer pays for a service, they’re entitled to get a service in return. If an insurance company wants to charge people for a policy and not cover a pre-existing condition, THEY’RE the ones asking for free stuff. I mean, I’d love to go into business, make people pay me hundreds of dollars per month, and give nothing in return. But you know what? Capitalism doesn’t work that way.

You are LUCKY not to have any pre-existing conditions. Fall to your knees and thank God for that, instead of hating on people who are sick.

I may be disabled, but I deserve health care as much as you. I’m tired of people like you telling me I deserve to die. Oh, and by the way—at least I know how to spell the word YOU’RE, so I’m at least my brain is sharper than yours. I guess that gives me one reason to live, am I right?

We elected Trump to make insurance BETTER, not to give “free stuff” to the insurance companies. If I’d wanted that kind of policy kept in place, I would’ve voted for Shillary to keep Obamacare alive.

Yes!
It’s really easy to take a cold, business stance on this... until it’s you, or your kid.
At the very least, if you are taking a cold stance, acknowledge that there are plenty of people who get sick, or are born sick, through no choice of their own. And acknowledge the fact that a lot of these people are unable to work enough to pay for their own insurance.
To me, it’s morally wrong to say abortion is wrong, but if you are born with a medical condition, once you age off your parents insurance, you are condemned to die. At that point, abortion looks like the more compassionate choice! Is that who we really are as conservatives?

There’s nothing “free stuff” about wanting a pre-existing condition covered in insurance that you’re PAYING FOR.

Yeah there is. Insurance is to pay for unknown future losses. Preexisting conditions is not an "unknown future loss".

When a consumer pays for a service, they’re entitled to get a service in return.

And you would if you got insurance...it would cover everything except your pre-x.

If an insurance company wants to charge people for a policy and not cover a pre-existing condition...

Then they would actually be selling real insurance. But to cover the pre-x would be a private-sector welfare. In order to get "health insurance" first you must have good health to insure. After that, if you get sick...they must pay for it and can't drop you.

I’d love to go into business, make people pay me hundreds of dollars per month, and give nothing in return.

That's not what happens...the insurers pay millions of dollars in claims every day, to patients who were well, and then got sick. They have to pay out about 80 cents of every premium dollar they take in...by law.

I may be disabled, but I deserve health care as much as you.

YES YOU DO, but healthcare is not the same as health insurance, the same way body/fender and paint work isn't the same as auto insurance.

There is very likely some other mechanism out there that will cover your expenses, but it's not insurance.

There’s nothing “free stuff” about wanting a pre-existing condition covered in insurance that you’re PAYING FOR.

This is an emotionally loaded issue, especially for people who have pre-existing issues.

If an insurance company wants to charge people for a policy and not cover a pre-existing condition, THEY’RE the ones asking for free stuff. I mean, I’d love to go into business, make people pay me hundreds of dollars per month, and give nothing in return. But you know what? Capitalism doesn’t work that way.

I think many posters are biting their tongues out of kindness. When nonsense such as this becomes bullying, however, it's time to speak up.

You obviously know nothing about business if you think covering pre-existing conditions is a business proposition. Charge someone even $1,000/mo knowing you'll be writing checks for more than that? You don't 'make that up on volume,' you increase losses with increased volume.

At some point money in and money out have to balance, at minimum. If an insurance company is paying out more than they get from you, for example, they have to make up for it by charging others more. That's the essence of Obamacare, and the reason why premiums were skyrocketing.

Covering pre-existing conditions is a charitable gift from the rest of us who pay premiums. Maybe we should do that.

But enough of the lies and nonsense. Let's call it what it is.