I heard once that there are only a couple hundred thousand people with true, I uninsurable pre-existing conditions.
If that’s true, let’s deal with them and fix the rest of the problem.
I now have one kid in the 20-26 range. But, she’s also in school full time and working full time. None of my kids fit the snowflake description. Three have jobs and are in high school or college, one is working full time and completely on her own.
The system of raising them then letting them go off has worked for millennia and still works today.
As I recall I was on my parents insurance till 22 as long as I was taking a full load in college. After 22 I was on my own but the Army took care of that.
The plan was a major medical policy in that my parents took care of all the basic stuff and the major medical kicked in beyond a certain level. It was what they and their employer could afford.
Today the world is upside down with everyone beginning with an entire panorama of benefits and someone else responsible for paying for them.
Yesterday there was a large AP, of course, story dealing with how Trump’s proposed tax cuts will mostly benefit the top 1% and even hurt some in the middle range. No one takes into consideration years ago EVERYONE with over a mere $600 or so paid income tax at a rate of what was about 15%. I know because I have my returns going back to 1963 and while I was making a few K a year I was paying a good % of income tax. The tax system will NEVER be fixed now as most pay little or no tax and some even get money back after paying no tax, a complete travesty for an income tax.
Twenty Freaking Six. When I was 26 I had already flown two tours in Vietnam. Hard to grasp 26-year-old “children.”
Try about 133 MILLION, and I think that is a low ball #. As it does not include those with issues like Barrett’s Esophagus which is a per-cancer, caused by over use of PPI’s..like Nexium which was meant to be a 2 week ulcer prevention drug, but turned out to be the best Reflux drug on the market, patent hasn’t run out yet for a generic. And Gastro’s leave patients on it to long as there is no other way to control the Reflux as many of it is Script drug related. Does it include those with Osteoarthritis it is a painful chronic disease and those drugs eat your GI track up as do the OTC crap like Advil or any other anti-inflammatory drug. Add in Osteoporosis...brittle bones, caused by script drugs. So the actual number they give is not accurate.
I have several friends with very painful incurable ICC bladder disease. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000477.htm Only pain meds give them any relief.
Chronic health conditions
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/NHC_Files/Pdf_Files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf