“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.
“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.”
What world do you live in, where the opponents of preexisting conditions provisions and the so-called “public option” don’t also oppose the individual mandate?