That’s the part they are not telling the country. For years now if you had insurance through your job there was no pre existing condition limitations. If you get fired, divorced from an insurance carrying spouse or etc. and become uninsured for a period of time, then you are considered to be uninsurable because of any pre existing conditions.
So people are encouraged to have continuous coverage to avoid the pool. If you can afford the high premiums you can have insurance if you’ve had continuous coverage. Obamacare lied and destroyed that system.
That was my situation. Worked for the company for 22 years. Despite taking damn good care of myself developed diabetes- genetic.
Then laid off. Closed the place. No one would cover me, ‘pre-existing condition’.
When you are in that type of situation, nothing else matters. Same thing if it was my kid and the company I worked for faithfully went belly-up... what answer does the Republican party have?
Not talking the lazy idiots who smoke, eat crap, never even run a 10K and then expect me to help pay for their heart attack, I’m not saying we should cover some fat slob 20 pounds over weight who would’t know a barbell from a kettlebell, but if you’ve played the game by the rules you were taught then either we should say ‘here is how we will cover you’ or admit that you should just go and die after exhausting all of your resources since, from a purely capitalist viewpoint, the only value you have is economic.