The slacker mandate is ridiculous, but the worst is mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions. That’s not insurance, it’s welfare.
Portability, yes, but pre-existing conditions, no.
Medicaid provided coverage for those with pre existing conditions, no?
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.
There are a lot of people with chronic incurable health conditions, there has to be an insurance pool for them. We should all be able to shop for the best policy regardless of state lines. And people who don’t have the luxury on their given policies to add/pay for dental, vision, hearing to it as separate policies if they want them.
Medicare and Tricare Life (MILITARY-Retired overy 65) and have both there Regs and Mandates that have to be followed to the letter. I need a upper Endo Scope every 2 yrs, they just shoved it off to every 3 yrs, Barrett’s Esophagus is a per-cancer that has to be monitored on a regular basis.
We pay for glasses, hearing aids, dental out of our own pockets. As these are not covered items. Hubby goes for a partial cornea transplant in Dec, that will mean several Cornea Doc trips and new glasses, even if we recycle his old frames it’s still close to $400 for new lenses, and I’m facing new glasses and mine will be $500 as I need special lenses. Hearing aids just for me were $3400 that does not include the very expensive batteries that might last 3-4 days each, times 2. Cheap ones last even fewer days.
That Navy Pension earned over 50 yrs ago and SS from second job after 20 yrs in the Navy, doesn’t go very far these days. When DUMBO took office our investments went to crap.
I have a question about “coverage for preexisting conditions”...
If an insurer KNOWS that a customer has a preexisting condition that they must cover with insurance, can’t they just raise that person’s premium and deductible to cover the inevitable expense?? Sure, cover them, but raise the cost just as you would insure a car that’s very expensive or a home in a disaster prone area.
What’s the deal with this?