Reply #6: You're absolutely right about that

[Warpy]

I've been disqualified by insurance companies for over 20 years. Since I have an illness that requires care, that disqualification has kept me in poverty. I can take care of the primary illness, but forget about preventive care and even much acute illness care.

Being uninsurable has meant things like hobbling around on a broken ankle a whole weekend, waiting for an urgent care to open because the ER is unaffordable. It's meant waiting out a respiratory illness that would have had me calling RT in a panic in the hospital but which I had to endure and just hope I survived.

Welcome to my world, people.

Maybe this time enough formerly smug middle class people will find out what a stupid idea tying health insurance to employment is.