Kasz216 said:
People with prexisting conditions can get healthcare covrage. It's just more expesnive. That's how all insurance works. If your more likely to be in a car accident, it's more expensive for you to get car insurance. If it looks like your going to die sooner, it's more expensive for you to get life insurance. If your house is in a more dangerous area it's more expensive for you to get house insurance. Here is another question though. Why should healthy people get insurance if you get charged the same for a prexisting condition? Why, get healthinsurance now... when healthy, when I can wait until i actually need my health insurance to get it? Additionally, that doesn't actually adress the issue on why healthcare insurance will cost more. Your basically conceding the argument.
Why is the AMA supporting this? Politics. I mean, it's fun to note that they were against the very same plan up till aboute June of this year... and espiecally against ALL public healthcare options.
What they want is a public option that will insure everyone for near free so they can make more money since they often don't collect on uninsured people. That an a uniform law for insurance forms. Doctors spend like 15% of what they make in paperwork help. |
I can say the same thing about why you are against healthcare reform, politics. You might be a right wing guy or a small government guy, either way your opposition can be mainly political too.
There was an initiative by Bachus to make health insuranc mandatory without the public option, is the AMA supporting that?
I don't think the life of somebody should be equated with car insurance and home insurance and such because many pre existing conditions are out of the control of the person, not like they were reckless and were born with a condition or got cancer before getting new insurance or something.
Also, health care companies use the smallest excuse to prevent coverage, did you know that achne was considered a pre existing condition that someone did not report to their health insurance provider and so they were dropped?
http://www.seiu.org/2009/08/womans-son-denied-coverage-because-of-acne.php

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