Everyone has been covered since the 1970s, but I’m glad you’re here to make sure we’re informed.
It’s always so encouraging to have someone who doesn’t know dilly about health care, try to trash others on the subject.
Didly
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Vote Cruz
Before Obamacare, people below medicare age with pre-existing conditions who are self employed, or unemployed, or part-time employed (in most cases anyway) are not covered by insurance, because the free-market-only solutions allow insurance companies to refuse to sell them a policy. One heart attack or one instance of needing cancer treatments will pretty much wipe out the finances of those people. Then they can move in with their children once they're one step up from destitute. THEN they can qualify for medicaid.
Even people who think they're covered may find themselves essentially uncovered if they have a need for expensive treatments, because insurance companies have staffs of people to disallow treatment plans, and more staffs to scrutinize insurance applications after the fact for anything they can use as an excuse for dropping coverage retroactively for failure to disclose a pre-existing condition.
With the high deductibles on most every Obamacare plan, it's a little better than no coverage at all, but not much. At the very least though, at least with Obamacare policies you can't be dropped retroactively for failure to disclose a pre-existing condition that you've never been treated for. The more I think about it, the more that single payer makes sense to me for the world we live in now.