I can understand your situation. There are many children born with birth defects. I am not opposed to the government helping such families, but forcing private insurance companies to cover preexisting illnesses is not the answer. I would hope something such as Medicare would be a better solution. Insurance companies are not charitable organizations. They are businesses, and most are publicly traded corporations. If the government forces insurance companies to cover preexisting medical conditions, they will go bankrupt. None of their policy holders could pay the premiums for medical coverage. We will eventually end up with socialized medicine run by the federal government.
“but forcing private insurance companies to cover preexisting illnesses is not the answer”
It’s already the law in the states. Obama was taking false credit, creating a crisis where there was none. These people are mistaken.
There is nothing in this bill that says that someone can just sit around then get sick then demand an insurance company give him a policy that he can afford. It’s a created myth, a replacement for the public option myth. And the law is quite the opposite, people cannot sit around and not buy insurance, they are criminalized if they don’t.
These people cannot focus on the central factor of the bill, the forced purchase of insurance, because, I suspect, deep down, they really like it, but cannot admit it, because it conflicts 100% with their purported ideals of freedom.
I sure hope you are wrong...we need private insurers. Then again, it may be Obama’s plan all along to get government health care by default if they all go bankrupt.