Please show me the conservative answer to the specific situations that I’ve outlined.
The pre-existing condition issue gets everyone at some point.
We all get sick. People are surviving cancer and chronic disease at much higher rates because modern medicine is improving. The ‘widow maker’ heart attack that would’ve been the end of a 45 year old isn’t ending his life and that man is living to be 85. T1 Diabetes used to be a death sentence, but now it’s an expensive, high-maintenance disease that doesn’t completely cripple a person and they *can* work, but they can never afford their disease without help.
There *is* no easy conservative answer to this problem. Conservationism hasn’t caught up with the reality of modern medicine.
The closest thing that I’ve seen that could work is the Australia model. They’ve got a crappy, inconvenient public system that people pay a reasonable price to stay out of.
>> Please show me the conservative answer to the specific situations that I’ve outlined. The pre-existing condition issue gets everyone at some point. <<
HIPAA was passed unanimously in 1996 by a Republican-controlled Senate, and expanded unanimously in 2004 by a Republican-controlled Senate with a Republican president. It was an expansion of Reagan’s COBRA. It means that if you were previously covered by health care that you cannot be turned down if you enroll in another health care program within several months.