Quote Originally Posted by Pancho Villa View Post
Yeah, sometimes, life kinda sucks.

The solution is not to drive up costs for everyone, that's a long-term way to make sure no one has health insurance.

The solution is to do what people used to do, that is, ask your neighbors, family, friends to help cover your costs. Healthcare is not a right; a doctor is not your slave, nor are your neighbors, if you get cancer.
I don't think anyone here is arguing the government should force insurance companies to cover pre existing. We are simply making the poor that the issue with pre existing conditions needs to be addressed. I am as far from a bleeding heart liberal as you can get but working in the health care field you see that for some it's not so easy as asking your friends and family. Example: sickle cell anemia patients probably have a "pain crisis" once or twice a year even when on meds. This puts them in the hospital for sometimes a week or more. I've seen the bill for one guy when working at university. It was around 40,000 for that week. Suppose his friends and family can pay for that? Pre existing conditions I actually feel like have a greater excuse to be partially covered by a government program for catastrophic costs than the poor. The costs associated with many pre existing conditions can be astronomical. In my opinion they need to have a way to put people with pre existing conditions on insurance policies for basic coverage and when catastrophic situations arise have Medicare or Medicaid cover them. You just need to have it where they have to pay into Medicaid or Medicare like 2k a year and then around 1k a year for private insurance for check ups, meds, etc.