Oh? How about you paying for your own “minor things?”
How about AIDS?
How about Hep C?
How about cancer?
Minor things like that? “force” insurers to offer that and rates will Skyrocket and make the following a wet dream of the “good old days” of merely double digit inflation.
>Additional concerns have been generated by projections that the state’s insurers plan to raise rates 10 percent to 12 percent next year.
Want “affordable” health care? - Get the government out entirely, from Medicare to Medicaid and everything in between and watch the cost of medical care plummet back to levels in line with the real free market principles that were in effect before 1964.
Fact is, the rates in Mass are going to increase like that for decades, and everyone behind the scenes knows it.
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America.
What do you do when people are turned down for preexisting conditions? Let them die if they are ill? Or make them find jobs with employers who have more than “x” employees so that their preexisting condition must be covered under the employer’s plan?
I’ve been turned down for a “minor” temporary condition - nothing like you mentioned. I worked for a small firm that didn’t offer insurance. It was infuriating.
With 40-some million people uninsured (to quote the media), it amounts to 15+ million upset people because their lives can depend on obtaining health care. They are enough to swing the vote.
If a conservative candidate doesn’t come up with do-able health care ideas, good luck electing a conservative candidate. There are plenty of smart ways to do it. Conservative voters just have to get over the terms “universal” or “socialist” health care. It’s all a matter of semantics.
P.S. I’ve been a Freeper since 1998 regardless of what my screen name shows.