[VietVet]

Once again, this author’s argument conflates medical care with medical insurance. The two are not the same.

Moreover, the mandating that persons with pre-existing conditions receive the same insurance at the same rates is just wrong; it forces healthy persons to pay for unhealthy persons, instead of the persons in ill health (often self-inflicted ill health) to pay for their own insurance. Mandating that everyone must buy health insurance which is rigged against them in favor of someone else is wrong too. Two wrongs do not make a right.

[spintreebob]

Pre-existing due to lifestyle choices (tobacco, over-eating, addictions, crime, bad driving, promiscuous sex, etc)
are totally different from pre-existing that are not life-style choices.

[generally]

2 great points that need to be repeated often:

1. The government should not be in the charity business.

2. Medical Insurance is NOT medical care.

[publius911]

Moreover, the mandating that persons with pre-existing conditions receive the same insurance at the same rates is just wrong; it forces healthy persons to pay for unhealthy persons, instead of the persons in ill health (often self-inflicted ill health) to pay for their own insurance.

To anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together, by definition, that ceases to be insurance.

Redefining the language doesn't replace reality.