Reply #14: For starters, Nancy & Harry could

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at last pass insurance reform so that:

- Claims cannot be denied. Period.
- Outlaw the concept of preexisting conditions. There should be no reason to disqualify you based on your prior health status or genetic history.
- No more "in" or "out" of network price differentials. You go where you like the Drs and it's convenient for you.
- Make the gov't plan available to everyone who doesn't have emp. based insurance. (This was John Edwards plan. It will eventually starve the insurance business.)
- Emphasis on preventive care to the extent that we know.
- Get everybody signed up for a GP for routine care and get them out of the ER, to save them for real emergencies -- what a concept!

If we did that much, I bet it would ease the pain on A LOT of people in the interim.