Reply #12: ...and continues...

[The Animator]

Douche:
Portability is part of that act, OP.

Charles- (I've always called you Charlie, why so serious? :D)

I've always said certain infrastructure projects and law enforcement should be government entities. Certainly NOT Federal government entities.... Read More

And, yes, OSHA is a joke too.
45 minutes ago



Douche:
Niko- also, why should an insurer have to take on a certain risk for someone with a pre-existing condition? If they forced that upon them then what would be the point of carrying insurance altogether? I'd wait to buy a policy til I needed treatment, have them pay for it, then drop the coverage. You'd be dumb not to. They simply have to protect themselves against it, and this is the most logical way to do it.
43 minutes ago



Charles Fernandez:
Thank you, Douche, for making a solid argument in *favor* of government health care. Yes, a private insurance company is looking out for it's own best interests by denying people with pre-existing conditions, or terminal illnesses... A private insurance company is a business, and businesses are supposed to make money... it only makes sense for them to avoid signing people that could be described as "walking money pits".

However, that person with the pre-existing condition still exists, and still needs health care... more than likely they need it pretty desperately, and they need it more than most...

People with genetic disorders, birth defects, cancers,... you don't contract these things through laziness... They occur on their own, and affect people whether they are productive members of society or not.

That's where the health care program would come in.. To provide affordable health care to people who would otherwise be denied by private insurance companies.