[Principled]

If people cannot be denied coverage due to a preexisting condition then the government has to force people to buy insurance. As simple as that.

When i was a kid, I had a preexitsing condition. I was able to get insurance tho the insurance wouldn't cover said preeixisting condition until i'd been covered 6 months.

Why can't it be that way again?

[Grams A]

Have been doing insurance verif for 30 years. Prior to Obamacare most policies had pre-existing ranging from 90 days to 6 months. Created extra paperwork in some instances, but well worth it.

[JohnBovenmyer]

You are, of course, correct and the way it was should be restored. If you drop insurance then everything new since your last insurance won't be covered for awhile. Not because of any government rule, but because no profit wanting insurance company would be dumb enough to sell you such. Specifics on pre-existing condition limits would be set by market forces. But you can renew coverage on on what was covered in the past.

But the left is deluded that coverage of "pre-existing" conditions is "insurance" and its media so brainwashed all their precious snowflakes. The proper course would be to 'damn the snowflakes, full free market ahead' but instead of Adm Farragut we're lead by Sen FearOfIt. This needs leadership by someone with Farragut's b*lls to overcome. Trump, alas, is too softhearted on the subject to use his here, but this is the single biggest reason Obamacare is jacking up premiums for everyone who's tried to do the right thing. Far more are scr*wed by it than would be scr*wed by removing it. The practical solution is Cruz's plan to ram it through the Senate as 'reconciliation' with 50 votes + Pence + Pence trumping the parliamentarian to allow it. Hillary + Kaine + Schumer would do it without blinking if needed.

[Axenolith]

Because it’s easy and involves less control.

[ArmstedFragg]

That’s a variation on what’s being proposed. No coverage for the pre-existing condition for six months, or no coverage for anything for two months pencil out about the same. Some version is necessary to prevent gaming the system.

The folks who are talking about people dying during the waiting period are engaging in the same kind if hyperbola that got us into this mess in the first place. A tour of pill hill will reveal that the gutters outside hospitals aren’t full of the bodies of people who didn’t have insurance. Having access to medical care is not synonymous with having somebody else paying for it.

[zerosix]

But, but, but, then the government can’t control your life, as it now does!

[zerosix]

But, but, but, then the government can’t control your life, as it now does!