Star Traveler wrote: “Obamacare did not change the financial dynamics for how much policies will cost from the insurance company that underwrites the policy.”
Uh...yes, it did. That’s why my 50+ year old wife still has maternity coverage.
All these attempts at normalizing this anti-Constitutional crap is mere sophistry. The simple fact is that the government has NO business in the healthcare business, in any way, shape, form, or manner. The libtards successfully conflated health CARE with health INSURANCE, in their thinly veiled pogrom to bring another 16% of the US economy under their control.
We let them do it. And, we will pay the heavy, heavy price.
To get cheaper policies, the insurance companies need to be able to EXCLUDE CONDITIONS and EXCLUDE PEOPLE from coverage. The insurance companies NEED to have large segments of the population EXCLUDED from any health insurance in order to give the fewer who can get it - the kind of “affordable” coverage that they’re thinking about.
However, when pre-existing conditions cannot be a factor for excluding people or for pricing policies sky-high, then you’re going to get higher prices for everyone because even the BAD RISKS are included.
See my post #22.