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[–] GreatDrok 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Pre-existing conditions is exactly why individual insurance shouldn't be a mechanism used to pay for healthcare. If only the US had some sort of countrywide insurance plan that everyone paid into according to their ability to pay, sort of a national insurance scheme. Well, that would be brilliant and would allow everyone to get healthcare when they needed it without having to go bankrupt just because they happen to have had some illness in the past which can't get covered by individual insurance. But such a scheme would be communism (apparently) and thus Americans simply have to accept that the proper capitalist way to do this is to have large numbers of people spend all their available resources, lose their houses, and be left in massive debt for the rest of their days until they die in poverty. That's the good christian capitalist way things should be.
[–] Maxcactus 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
So far all I see are the same old tired non working GOP schemes they always pull out. The GOP forced many of the bad parts of ACA and then bitched about it for the last seven years. In all of that time they didn't come up with a replacement. If you allow exclusion of preexisting conditions then the insurance companies can just skim off the cream leaving sick people uncovered. If you don't have mandates then you just have sick people packing the system and no way to spread the cost among a large pool of people. Poor people living hand to mouth don't have extra money to put in health savings accounts. I say if it's good enough for Grandma it's good enough for the rest of us, put everyone on Medicare and be finished with it.
[–] 8217959? ago
How did the GOP force the bad parts of ACA? No Republican voted for it.