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.
Who gets to decide? Guaranteed AIDS doesn’t get included with the lifestyle choices. There will be a room full of elitist snobs determining this, whatever they deem evil and unhealthy will get taxed again and again. Then as the system is collapsing they will use your poor choices to deny treatment. I am good with the old system where the poor choice is, not being covered.
I am not sure of the solution to the preexisting conditions—I know you do not tear the house apart for the small percentage of people that need the fix, that applies to the whole insurance fiasco that we have now. Only like 15% didn’t have insurance, most by choice. Why is this my problem and why should I pay for it?
That statement displays gross selective stupidity.
Of all those monumental stupid lifestyle choices, tobacco is the ONLY listed destructive choice which has been taxed many trillions of dollars to pay for the results--- until elected criminals realized that they could syphon off most of those taxes to support old and new pet projects totally unrelated to smoking...
No one can claim the same for beached whale overeaters, drunk driver manslaughters, the pervert disease epidemic, drug addicts.
Nice try though.
What sadly remains unsaid is that the former should pay the price for their poor choices, yes even death, while the latter can be willingly taken care of by the real and ever present Christian charities.
The growing army of indolent can join the first group, too, as a lifestyle choice.