re: How did Obama et al benefit from including pre-existing conditions

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Insurance companies were abusing the exclusion.

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It’s a contract, you dumb idiot.

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Also, most people get insurance through their employment. So, change jobs, you pay full price for your premium and also pay full price medical expenses out of pocket for a year. Change jobs again, another year with no coverage.

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I don’t know what insurance you had, but every time I changed jobs and insurances, I received a request proving I had prior insurance in order for them to cover a “preexisting condition”. Once I provided the proof, they covered the condition.

Vote purchase

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risk assessment is a necessity

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Yep, people with "pre-existing" medical conditions don't deserve affordable medical care. It's probably their own fault, some poor decision on their part.

frick 'em.

They owned stock in the healthcare companies

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But it is being abused now, tremendously. Folks won’t get healthcare. They find out they need a surgery or something, jump on the marketplace and find a policy, go get said surgery or care, and then quit paying their premiums.

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And you can thank republicans for repealing the insurance mandate.

But of course, you oppose a mandate that everyone pay in to get coverage, and you oppose any requirement to insure existing conditions, and you want to go back to the time of millions of uninsured showing up at hospitals for no-revenue emergency treatment. And you also want to repeal the requirement that hospitals are required to provide emergency treatment to the uninsured.

So really, what you want is the Calcutta model where the impoverished sick and dying have nowhere to go except to the Mother House, where the Sisters of Charity will try to make them comfortable as they suffer and die.